It would be a good fit for most of those subjects, but keep in mind that GAE cannot access email through IMAP or POP3 because it doesn't support sockets, only standard url fetch. If you want to include email in your service, you'll have to base a proxy somewhere else, such as Rackspace, Heroku/AWS, etc.
On Aug 3, 4:37 am, Levi Campbell <levicc00...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm building a startup, and I'm considering GAE as the platform, however > I've been having a hard time finding information on why a startup might > consider GAE instead of the many cloud providers out there. Let me explain > what I'm working on. > > I'm a big fan of David Allen's Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free > Productivity<http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Productivity/dp...>, > and after trying several tools and online services that (claim to) > implement the GTD methodology, I couldn't find anything that I loved, so I > decided to build my own and make it available as a SaaS offering. This app > will allow users to pull in their info_crap from email, facebook, twitter > (and yes, I do have plans to add support for more social networks.), and > RSS feeds and organize it by relationship to the sender (i.e. family, > work colleague, vendor, and the like), project (i.e. planning a family > vacation.), and context (Either the when or where something should > happen.).\ > > Would GAE be a good fit for the application I'm developing? Why? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
