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 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