Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Buy It or Build It? A Service is Not a Solution
Jan 16, 2023 · 44 min
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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
- Scott’s Instagram
- LevelUpTutorials Instagram
- Wes’ Instagram
- Wes’ Twitter
- Wes’ Facebook
- Scott’s Twitter
- Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets
Sentry
sentry.ioPostmark
postmarkapp.comRecurly
recurly.comLemon Squeezy
lemonsqueezy.comStripe
stripe.comBraintree
braintreepayments.comCloudinary
cloudinary.comVercel OG
vercel.comPuppeteer
pptr.devAlgolia
algolia.comElastic
elastic.coMongoDB
mongodb.comPasswordJS
npmjs.comVimeo
vimeo.comMux
mux.comAmazon Kinesis
aws.amazon.comScott’s Instagram
instagram.comLevelUpTutorials Instagram
instagram.comWes’ Instagram
instagram.comWes’ Twitter
twitter.comWes’ Facebook
facebook.comScott’s Twitter
twitter.com@SyntaxFM
twitter.com
