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Cheap Infrastructure for Start Ups

technologyreview.com — Google's App Engine is the latest service to reduce operating costs for Web startups.

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  • nickcozy, on 04/24/2008, -12/+1O'RLY.
  • hm2k, on 04/24/2008, -12/+1/me doesn't understand why this has hit his rss feed...
  • cryptnix, on 04/24/2008, -11/+0noice.
  • solarwind24, on 04/24/2008, -8/+2Why is there a thumbnail of amazon for this?

    Nevermind, I see the correlation now.
  • laserblazer, on 04/24/2008, -1/+10Ah for the heady days when you could get massive capital investment in your web-site that featured a pixelated .jpg of a walrus and a hit-counter.
    • MWeather, on 04/24/2008, -0/+2Can you imagine the ad revenue Hampster Dance would have generated if they had added some adsense ads?
  • JQP123, on 04/24/2008, -1/+3"Shah says he thinks that, rather than building infrastructure, many startups now use venture capital to build staff and increase research."

    First rule of startups ---- Hardware and software are cheap; people are expensive.
  • EBFoxbat, on 04/24/2008, -3/+1http://code.google.com/appengine/
  • ffttoteof, on 04/24/2008, -1/+1Uh, buried, since the description here makes it look like this is about Google's App Engine, and it's not, really.
  • uptown, on 04/24/2008, -0/+12If you need $150k in infrastructure to get a web-based startup going you're doing something wrong .....
  • acidandspatter, on 04/24/2008, -2/+2Dugg down. This just regurgitated most of what we all already knew. I'd rather have read a roundup of all of the options available to startups completely, or an article containing the history of web startup and how it is changing now and what the experts think'll be happening in the next few years.
  • wigginz, on 04/24/2008, -0/+2sure hope google has plans to add more languages to what the app engine supports, few developers are in the business of writing web apps in python... at least that I know of.
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