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What if you were trying to start Google today (assuming it didn't exist), and you had to bootstrap with maybe only $500 available to spent per month? How would
by AznHisoka 13y ago
What if you were trying to start Google today (assuming it didn't exist), and you had to bootstrap with maybe only $500 available to spent per month? How would you guys do it?
- kineticfocus 13y agoWell this would be a place to start... http://commoncrawl.org http://commoncrawl.org. It would be interesting to see a solution to the data center requirement that uses some adhoc bit-torrent like system.
- kintamanimatt 13y agoI presume you're talking about hardware budget. You probably wouldn't get very far with such a low budget, but I think your question is how to get the most bang for your buck. The answer is with dedicated hardware, especially for computationally expensive apps. $500/month dedicated hardware will beat the pants off of $500/month of EC2 instances for example, but it comes with the cost of being less flexible.
- hashtree 13y agoAmortized over 3/5 years or non-amortized? Different answers :)
- wmf 13y agoRead up on the history of DuckDuckGo; AFAIK it was one person in the beginning.
- nly 13y agoHold out with a handful of servers until Google bought you.