How I built a business in a weekend (Or, the benefits of shared workspaces)

Re:How I built a business in a weekend (Or, the benefits of ... by Ecio78 on Wednesday March 21, 2012 @09:30AM (#3734251)

So you built your business entirely relying on third-party services. Not only is this dangerous (if they change their rates one day, you will need to scramble), but, your business has virtually no barrier to entry.

..as tons of other startups do, and actually the only external services they use are Twilio and Stripe, others cited are just opensource frameworks/technologies (RoR, Bootstrap).

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:How I built a business in a weekend (Or, the benefits of ... by paulhauggis on Wednesday March 21, 2012 @08:44PM (#3737713)

".as tons of other startups do, and actually the only external services they use are Twilio and Stripe, others cited are just opensource frameworks/technologies (RoR, Bootstrap)."

..and they are disposable. Most startups I see I know won't be around in 2 years.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:How I built a business in a weekend (Or, the benefits of ... by Ecio78 on Thursday March 22, 2012 @02:56AM (#3738724)

.and they are disposable. Most startups I see I know won't be around in 2 years.

they won't be around not because of the external services they've used but because they wont find the right business model. It's like saying that every ecommerce around will fail because they're using and external payment processor like Paypal. Maybe some of them can fail because of a Paypal "horror story" (account blocked etc..) but most of them will fail because they are not profitable.

I partially agree with you that relying on external services could be a risk, but in this case they've chosen services for some part that are not so easy to implement internally, and for that they've picked two new but highly growing services.

[ Parent | on HN ]