Martin, This has already happened =). There are folks here in these groups who have built very successful businesses on App Engine. You just don't hear about them because they're not hyped in the tech blogs.
-- Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine Blogger: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine Twitter: http://twitter.com/app_engine On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:20 AM, Martin Webb <[email protected]> wrote: > All that GAE needs is someone in these forums to build, launch and run the > next killa app like twitter. Once that happens people will take the platform > more than seriously as the app will scale to millions trouble free overnight > - sending out big signals to developers that app engine is a serious, well > honed platform for building scalable apps. Lets hope that day comes soon, as > when it does im sure once the limelight is on - things can only get better. > Im sure someone somewhere is hard to work on just that. > > Regards > > > > > > *Martin Webb* > ** > > > > > The information contained in this email is confidential and may contain > proprietary information. It is meant solely for the intended recipient. > Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the > intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action > taken or omitted in reliance on this, is prohibited and may be unlawful. No > liability or responsibility is accepted if information or data is, for > whatever reason corrupted or does not reach its intended recipient. No > warranty is given that this email is free of viruses. The views expressed in > this email are, unless otherwise stated, those of the author > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Tim Hoffman <[email protected]> > *To:* Google App Engine <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Tue, 23 November, 2010 8:11:35 > *Subject:* [google-appengine] Re: Let's defend GAE! > > Hi Adam > > Couldn't agree more with your sentiments. In addition to working on > fairly significant > projects with appengine, I run our small business web site on > appengine as well (www.fishandlily.com.au). > > It is really a headache free environment if you get everything > sorted. We don't have to > worry about os upgrades. Server/hardware problems etc... My wife > manages the content (again > a small cms for us) and I occasionally make some tweaks to the code > base. > > With agressive use of memcache, we almost never see any of the major > problems of > increased datastore latency. > > Rgds > > Tim > > -- > 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 google-appengine+ > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > > -- > 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]<google-appengine%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > -- 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.
