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

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

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