These are some really useful answers to a really good question, thanks. This discussion is slightly old now, so I'm just wondering where everyone is now? Is there anything you do differently? Thanks.
On Sunday, 31 January 2010 05:31:34 UTC, decuman 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/1zDsAom7CFYJ. 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.
