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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

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