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I'm sorry, but I don't understand any of this hating on Rap Genius. There's a reason they are the fastest growing YC company ever, and got a16z in for 15M -- b

by zmitri 14y ago

I'm sorry, but I don't understand any of this hating on Rap Genius. There's a reason they are the fastest growing YC company ever, and got a16z in for 15M -- because they are straight killers. They have quietly created an internet empire until this point, and are building something that people love and use everyday. A lot of folks wouldn't have the chutzpah to call out Heroku like that or are just too small to make this kind of attention. To me it seems as though they are helping Ruby devs save money and time. 8 dynos vs 4 dynos is a hell of a big difference when you're starting out. Also, seems like something that would be pretty fun to do if you worked there.

oijaf888 14y ago
Yet they are spending a crazy amount on hosting with Heroku when they could be doing it themselves and get cost savings plus know the entire stack.
- neura 14y ago
  TL;DR - They've said repeatedly that they would rather work on their product/projects than have to deal with all of the details themselves. The crazy amount they're spending should give you an idea of how much throughput they have and what would be required for their own setup. That means a lot of design, additional time implementing, more time updating to new tech (including on the software side, in gems, etc), then in the end, ongoing maintenance. There's probably a lot more that I'm not mentioning as hey, like them, I'm not interested in spending my time developing, purchasing and administrating my own hosting systems, either. I have apps to write.
  - oijaf888 14y ago
    But it seems like they had to deal with the details themselves, plus they are paying a crazy amount of money. Seems like a lose/lose situation for them. Also the amount of money really gives no indication of how optimized a site is or how much traffic it gets. I've seen sites that are in the top 500 spending ~3K/mo on hosting and sites that get 60K uniques a month spending 2x that.

by zmitri 14y ago

oijaf888 14y ago

Yet they are spending a crazy amount on hosting with Heroku when they could be doing it themselves and get cost savings plus know the entire stack.

neura 14y ago
TL;DR - They've said repeatedly that they would rather work on their product/projects than have to deal with all of the details themselves. The crazy amount they're spending should give you an idea of how much throughput they have and what would be required for their own setup. That means a lot of design, additional time implementing, more time updating to new tech (including on the software side, in gems, etc), then in the end, ongoing maintenance. There's probably a lot more that I'm not mentioning as hey, like them, I'm not interested in spending my time developing, purchasing and administrating my own hosting systems, either. I have apps to write.
- oijaf888 14y ago
  But it seems like they had to deal with the details themselves, plus they are paying a crazy amount of money. Seems like a lose/lose situation for them. Also the amount of money really gives no indication of how optimized a site is or how much traffic it gets. I've seen sites that are in the top 500 spending ~3K/mo on hosting and sites that get 60K uniques a month spending 2x that.