Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Buy It or Build It? A Service is Not a Solution

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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the differences between building it yourself vs paying for a service to do it for you, such as cron jobs, checkout, hosting, images, video, and more.

Show Notes
  • 00:24 Welcome
  • 03:19 Buying vs building topic
  • 07:09 Strategy
  • 09:50 Escapability
  • 14:56 Services You Could Use
  • Sentry
  • Postmark
  • 16:34 Efficiency of using a service
  • 18:08 Cron jobs
  • 20:43 Checkout
  • Recurly
  • Lemon Squeezy
  • Stripe
  • Braintree
  • 24:29 Hosting
  • 26:00 Screenshots and open graph images
  • Cloudinary
  • Vercel OG
  • Puppeteer
  • 29:25 Search
  • Algolia
  • Elastic
  • MongoDB
  • 33:32 Auth
  • PasswordJS
  • 36:55 Images
  • 39:46 Video Hosting
  • Vimeo
  • Mux
  • Amazon Kinesis
    • Tweet us your tasty treats
    • Scott’s Instagram
  • LevelUpTutorials Instagram
  • Wes’ Instagram
  • Wes’ Twitter
  • Wes’ Facebook
  • Scott’s Twitter
  • Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets
    • ...more
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    Syntax - Tasty Web Development TreatsBy Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski - Full Stack JavaScript Web Developers
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