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If anyone hacking away or at the very earliest stages of a startup is reading this - run away. I'm sure this was a great learning process for the creator. Howev
by axg11 5y ago
If anyone hacking away or at the very earliest stages of a startup is reading this - run away. I'm sure this was a great learning process for the creator. However, as a new startup you should be aiming to take as many shortcuts as possible. Use every hosted or managed service that makes sense for you. Use anything that saves you time. Your job as the "technologist" is to deliver value (in the form of software) in the shortest time possible. Every hour you spend on distractions such as self-hosting is a self-own.
- sodality2 5y ago> Every hour you spend on distractions such as self-hosting is a self-own. I think the idea of this guide is to reduce the amount of time spent setting up a self-host to a minimum, though I agree it's usually not cost-effective.
- qwerki 5y agoNot disagreeing but this assumes Silicon Valley budgets for startups. The story may be different if you're not funded yet and in discovery mode or if you're bootstrapping.
- axg11 5y agoDoes it? Just taking one example "managed" stack: AWS Amplify + Lambda + S3 + DynamoDB. You can get pretty far using the free tier for the first two and using the second two sparingly. If you're spending any more than $20 per month on that stack, then you probably have a significant number of users and traction already.