January 16th, 2023 × #services#saas#api
Buy It or Build It? A Service is Not a Solution
Discussion on evaluating whether to buy or build services for your application.
Wes Bos Host
Scott Tolinski Host
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the differences between building it yourself vs paying for a service to do it for you, such as cron jobs, checkout, hosting, images, video, and more.
Show Notes
- 00:24 Welcome
- 03:19 Buying vs building topic
- 07:09 Strategy
- 09:50 Escapability
- 14:56 Services You Could Use
- Sentry
- Postmark
- 16:34 Efficiency of using a service
- 18:08 Cron jobs
- 20:43 Checkout
- Recurly
- Lemon Squeezy
- Stripe
- Braintree
- 24:29 Hosting
- 26:00 Screenshots and open graph images
- Cloudinary
- Vercel OG
- Puppeteer
- 29:25 Search
- Algolia
- Elastic
- MongoDB
- 33:32 Auth
- PasswordJS
- 36:55 Images
- 39:46 Video Hosting
- Vimeo
- Mux
- Amazon Kinesis
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