I am a business-use developer and somewhat of a forum lurker (unless it is a task queue subject).
Absolutely endorse what Greg is saying. GAE is a terrific platform for business tool development. (Note that I do not do much transactional tools work such as inventory control. Dealing with GAE's eventual consistency may be much harder for such work.) It is amazingly freeing to have no worries about anything other than features your customers need. And once one gets a sense for it, GAE is a very productive development environment (more optimization case studies desperately needed here.) Having developed a good tool for business, I would think it very unusual that GAE's cost structure would constrain one's profit margins. -stevep On Mar 28, 5:16 am, "Gregory D'alesandre" <gr...@google.com> wrote: > I'd like to second that, there are a lot of folks in the Group from the > startup and hobbyist communities which is why you hear from those segments > a lot but there is a large group of folks out there building applications > (and businesses) along these lines that talk to the App Engine team in > person but don't participate as much on the list. > > I too would love to hear more about it! > > Greg D'Alesandre > Senior Product Manager, Google App Engine > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Richard Watson > <richard.wat...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > > > > > I think your app is perfect for GAE, actually. Build something you charge > > for, have it cost less than that, never (or rarely) worry about scaling. > > The thing is called Google "App" Engine, not > > Free-Google-Platform-For-Your-LOLcat-Website. Would love to read more > > about what you've done. > > > On Wednesday, March 28, 2012 8:38:39 AM UTC+2, doright wrote: > > >> well, I'm not in these guy's league but I have built a Saas on GAEJ, it's > >> been in production since late 2010, with paying customers. > > >> I plan to write up my experience at some stage, as I know its not your > >> typical GAE app. Its more of an enterprise software solution than a true > >> web-startup, but so far I've found GAE keeps on delivering and I have used > >> pretty much most of what they have to offer in terms of infrastructure. > >> Most of what I'm not using yet I certainly plan to use in the future. > > >> Its been a mainly very positive experience. > >> (you can see links in there to a library of videos demonstrating the sort > >> of functionality) > > >>www.bikeshopmanager.com > > >> (re-posted this at the correct level, with link) > > >>> -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Google App Engine" group. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > >https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/HE8c9rSpSBMJ. > > > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@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. -- 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-appengine@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.
