Hi NG We are running our business on AppEngine. (Search "Shoes of Prey" on Google to find us.)
So far, it is going really well. AppEngine is a delight to develop on, and you can't argue with the cost. (I've only been charged $0.01 so far. Although, as I've posted in another thread, the small charge by itself was problematic for me.) :) I had to write the entire ecommerce platform from scratch - which suited me given the very custom nature of our business - however you may not be as keen as me. It really depends on your business. We choose AppEngine primarily because a) 2 of us used to work at Google, and we love AppEngine b) if we start serving a lot of traffic/ bandwidth we want something scalable. As I said earlier as well, the API is really nice and makes developing a breeze. The only thing I wish AppEngine had was HTTPS support for custom domains, and I'm hopeful that one day it will be supported. There are workarounds too. Once AppEngine has HTTPS support and a few open- source ecommerce software packages, it will be a really great platform I would think. Good luck. Mike On Jan 31, 4:31 pm, decuman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > At the moment I'm thinking of building a small/medium online selling > business and before investing more of my time (and money) into GAE > based development it would be just great to know some experienced > users and expert thoughts and opinions on it. > > As far as I can see (after reading related books, articles and message > group threads) GAE is just a perfect solution for prototyping and > building a social networking applications (Blogs, Chats, Galleries, > Message boards etc.) which requires tracking a lot of users and > storing data... which is great. But there is quite a few (literally > none) of nice business/e-commerce applications with decent product > galleries, shopping carts and checkout functionality and payment > service integration. Also there are lots of complains and negative > responses pointing to big GAE functional limitations (which are not > going to improve soon or ever) and overall practicability of using it > as a reliable e-commerce platform. In particular (PayPal, Google > Checkout integration) > > It wasn't a very deep and thoughtful investigation but the outlined > above is just my personal subjective feeling so far. I would really > love to know the opinion and thoughts on this matter from GAE experts. > Shell I move forward with Google App Engine development or it would be > move wise to consider some other solution? > > Thanks in advance! > NG -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
