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by mattront 15y ago
That is a welcome change. Previously, Route 53 was useless for services that involve hosting user domains (web hosting, for example) because of $1/month charge per zone. 1000 low traffic sites would cost $1000 per month just for domain zone
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As if the rest of the web plays by the protocol rules. How about Amazon (and most other e-commerce sites) showing you the list of last viewed items? User state is obviously changed by GET requests. That's the reality of modern dynamic sites
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"In a market where there are no barriers to entry (i.e. perfectly competitive), the long-term price will tend to zero." Yes, the price will gravitate towards zero because of competition or due to the fact that end users would not be willing
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Agree. Hosting and bandwidth costs are just a part of the total costs of running an online service, besides development, customer support and marketing costs. "In other words, if the cost to serve a customer (support aside) is zero, the lon
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"Inconsistent startups write 3.4 times more lines of code in the Discovery stage and 2.25 times more lines of code in the Efficiency stage." This is interesting. Either inconsistent startups (startups that are more likely to fail) over-do d
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Impressive design and effects, but that didn't help me to better understand the instructions. It was more of a distraction.
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Recent Groupon acquisitions are in line with this strategy. For example, Zappedy (acquired in July 2011), is an online CRM platform for small businesses. http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/17/zappedy-acquired-by-groupon...
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Yes. We did a lot of client web development work (Pinegrow evolved from there) and we often work with designers who need us to turn their designs into a functional site. Many designers are not coders and have no interest in dealing with nua
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Yes, fluid designs are possible. We are also working on option to specify media based rules for individual elements including serving different image resolutions to different devices. The main idea is to have one set of content that is then
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In addition to DIY market we also have those designers who until now had to hire a programmer to turn their designs into a functional website (with cms or without). Thanks for the landing video suggestion!
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There was a delay with sending form submissions through email. I disabled it, works much better now.
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Thanks for your feedback! Our unique value proposition is that designers can build custom site templates quickly, without coding. Most existing solutions (Weebly for example) require coding html / css templates for implementing custom site
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There is video - click on watch video above the main title. Maybe should be more obvious?
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Show HN: Build custom designed CMS sites in the browser without any coding(pinegrow.com)
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AWS EU outage might take 2 days to recover - EBS to blame
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Show HN: weekend project - Let's Fix Your Width(min-width.com)
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