Lol it seems we all walk the same path On Apr 4, 8:42 pm, "Brandon Wirtz" <[email protected]> wrote: > Current thinking on VCs around App Engine Powered startups is unfortunately > negative. VCs are aware that Google often kills beta products or > drastically changes the economics of products they offer at a price. When > GAE comes out of beta this may change, but currently the risk as a VC is > that an App Engine Powered Startup gets to 10M users and 1M lines of code, > and Google decides it isn't in the App engine business, any more. All of > sudden you are homeless and without a compatible alternative. > > Being Self-Funded I'm Taking the bet that my product will save enough money > running on GAE that it negates the risks. But most VCs right now favor AWS > because you could bounce to Liquid Web or host on your private hardware > cluster, or move to a number of other compatible services, maybe not at the > same economics but you wouldn't be out of business. > > Plus, I'm hoping Google will just buy me before I get to that point, and > then if they close the project I'll already be paid out :-) > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Calvin > Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 9:58 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [google-appengine] Startup Weekend and Google App Engine > > I just had a really great time participating in a Startup Weekend event > (http://startupweekend.org/). I was the sole engineer on our team and, > thanks to App Engine, I was able to create a functional site, a user sign-in > mechanism, a "wizard" for creating data, and a rough mobile site for > consuming that data. All within 48 hours (and I even had time to sleep). > > Unfortunately, we were the only team to use App Engine. Google, or the App > Engine team, should sponsor events like this to raise awareness of the > product's capabilities. > > I'd also like to thank Google for all the ass-kicking public APIs they > provide. With no previous experience with the Google Maps API (and a tight > time crunch) I was able to add address lookup, and a map with a thumbtack on > the returned location, in just a couple of lines of JavaScript. > > -- > 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
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