Hi Mike, Thanks for your reply. It is really helpful and encouraging to know that there are successful e-Commerce models already running good on GAE. Your online shop looks GREAT! Clean and intuitive design with simple cart + payment structure. And yes, it is pretty much the same that I want to do for my service - to write a custom (yet simple) shopping cart and be able to control and change anything quick and easy (as I understand it)... and due do appEngine development simplicity phenomenon I actually enjoy doing it right now, but, as I mentioned above, my main concern is all about the simplicity of adding, controlling, 'rewiring' and, the last but not least, securing clients online payments. I'm pretty sure it is relatively easy for an experienced web programmer (especially Google programmer;) to set it up nicely from the scratch but not that transparent for a beginner (like myself) to make that part running properly without fiddling with different approaches, trials and fails... and true, I wish there were a couple of reliable open-source e-commerce solutions already to investigate and rely on. Also I guess there could be a decent guideline for embedding Google Checkout service... at least it seems natural as it is Google's proprietary online paying system.
Thanks, NG On Feb 2, 2:19 am, Mike <mickn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi NG > > We are running our business on AppEngine. (Search "Shoes of Prey" on > Google to find us.) > > So far, it is going really well. AppEngine is a delight to develop on, > and you can't argue with the cost. (I've only been charged $0.01 so > far. Although, as I've posted in another thread, the small charge by > itself was problematic for me.) :) > > I had to write the entire ecommerce platform from scratch - which > suited me given the very custom nature of our business - however you > may not be as keen as me. It really depends on your business. > > We choose AppEngine primarily because a) 2 of us used to work at > Google, and we love AppEngine b) if we start serving a lot of traffic/ > bandwidth we want something scalable. As I said earlier as well, the > API is really nice and makes developing a breeze. > > The only thing I wish AppEngine had was HTTPS support for custom > domains, and I'm hopeful that one day it will be supported. There are > workarounds too. Once AppEngine has HTTPS support and a few open- > source ecommerce software packages, it will be a really great platform > I would think. > > Good luck. > > Mike > > On Jan 31, 4:31 pm, decuman <ngn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > At the moment I'm thinking of building a small/medium online selling > > business and before investing more of my time (and money) into GAE > > based development it would be just great to know some experienced > > users and expert thoughts and opinions on it. > > > As far as I can see (after reading related books, articles and message > > group threads) GAE is just a perfect solution for prototyping and > > building a social networking applications (Blogs, Chats, Galleries, > > Message boards etc.) which requires tracking a lot of users and > > storing data... which is great. But there is quite a few (literally > > none) of nice business/e-commerce applications with decent product > > galleries, shopping carts and checkout functionality and payment > > service integration. Also there are lots of complains and negative > > responses pointing to big GAE functional limitations (which are not > > going to improve soon or ever) and overall practicability of using it > > as a reliable e-commerce platform. In particular (PayPal, Google > > Checkout integration) > > > It wasn't a very deep and thoughtful investigation but the outlined > > above is just my personal subjective feeling so far. I would really > > love to know the opinion and thoughts on this matter from GAE experts. > > Shell I move forward with Google App Engine development or it would be > > move wise to consider some other solution? > > > Thanks in advance! > > NG -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
