Corduroy: A billing system for your startup (launched today)

Re:Corduroy: A billing system for your startup (launched today) by markbao on Monday April 21, 2008 @01:05PM (#169593)

Very nicely done. It'll be interesting to see how this stacks up against Blinksale. The price is reasonable when compared with Blinksale and the like, but you'll probably want to make this $59/mo unlimited or a high number of invoices, and create sub-plans that, for example, with $10 a month, you can send out x invoices.

Just some thoughts.

By the way, I've always wondered this. How do you reroute subdomain.corduroysite.com? DNS things? In other words - how do you recognize that subdomain.corduroysite.com is the account name? I haven't been able to figure this out, but it's probably because I've been on shared hosting forever :)

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Re:Corduroy: A billing system for your startup (launched today) by there on Monday April 21, 2008 @01:09PM (#169603)

thanks. judging from the comments here already, i think a lower-priced restricted plan is needed. i'll work on that tonight...

for subdomains, a simple DNS wildcard is used to route (everything).corduroysite.com to the same ip. a wildcard SSL certificate is also needed, which is quite expensive unfortunately.

the application then checks the hostname that was passed from the web server, finds the matching company record, and does its magic.

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Re:Corduroy: A billing system for your startup (launched today) by johns on Monday April 21, 2008 @01:07PM (#169598)

Wild card DNS entry directs all subdomian.site.com addresses to the same server, then determine the site based on the URL in code. That's how I do it.

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Re:Corduroy: A billing system for your startup (launched today) by maurycy on Monday April 21, 2008 @05:53PM (#169954)

e.g. http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/plugins/account_locatio...

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