Running Costs of a SaaS app

Re:Running Costs of a SaaS app by destroytoday on Monday February 20, 2017 @03:14PM (#13690489)

Hi! Great question. I love static websites, but we hit a point where we were updating the site constantly and needed dynamic content, like the running costs (which pulls its data from a google spreadsheet). There are certainly ways to do this with a static site, but with the size of the site and frequency that we update it, I really wanted to be able to hit save and it was live, rather than wait for everything to compile and publish. I still use Siteleaf for all of my other websites, but cushionapp.com is a different beast.

Also, lol at "marketing team". I am marketing team. :)

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Re:Running Costs of a SaaS app by moeamaya on Monday February 20, 2017 @04:05PM (#13690877)

Ah okay that makes a ton of sense with how dynamic the site now is. Looking back now, would you have still gone with a static site generator or started with something dynamic (question we're pondering now with monograph.io which is middleman)?

Also on the marketing team, I got head-faked by the growth freelancer, and assumed you went with a dynamic CMS to get more help. But man impressed with how much you still do!

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Re:Running Costs of a SaaS app by shanecleveland on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @07:28PM (#13701681)

Thanks for the insight this provides. Any chance you could share this spreadsheet template?

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