Buy It or Build It? A Service is Not a Solution
Jan 16, 2023•44 min
Episode description
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
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