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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