Someone doesn't need too, you would just like them too. There is a difference.
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When freelancing, people state I am a web developer / application developer, but I will let them call me "God of development".
That being said I think if you have done the research and know there is a market you should have no reason not to have users.
Why?
Proof. You say they took your code but whats to say they already had something similar in development. Without actually seeing the code changes you are just making assumptions (although it does sound suspicious).
Personally I would say take the moral high ground. Just forget it and move on. A lawyer will take you money and you will probably be worse off than before.
Do love digitalocean though.
Asking stupid questions for one.
If only I could down vote this stupidly pointless post.
You are billed on the number of dyno's, and database storage. Overtime this is only going to get bigger which means costs will only ever increase.
It will get to a point `1day` where you will be looking to bring this cost down by managing your own web servers.
Uptime they are good no noticeable problems and the network speeds are excellent. They are actually built upon amazon cloud.
The downside is the cost. Yes, they get your app up and running with little to no maintenance but you do pay for the privilege.
Personally I use heroku as a development and deployment platform before moving it to a cheaper solution once I have the time.
> Does Heroku offer any value for people who know how to set up servers but are inexperienced with larger setups / load-balancing?
Yes! time is money, so even if you know how to setup a server having it all automated is a massive time saver.
That being said as you scale so will the cost. At some point you will want to move provider and then you will be in the situation of still having to setup and run your platform.
If you want to make things cheaper you could always confide in a priest (At least you are guaranteed for it to be free and if you say its a confession they cant share with anyone else :P)
Take for example a poor developer who keeps breaking things. It can actually be difficult to get rid of someone. So the company instead makes him a low level manager (no longer directly touching code).
Yes! he comes up with stupid ideas etc, but, his team know he is wrong so they just work around the stupidity.
In a couple of years of poor management from this junior manager (who team keeps working through). Upper management (who forgot how bad a developer he was) think GOD! he has done a good job; his team get things done. Lets promote him.
Bad manager is now in a higher position again.
100 days of development work you should be looking at around $8000 $10000 at least.
Likewise take a look at what problems businesses have and come up with solutions.
They also give you the standard setup images, scaling, etc.
I asked the question as i was on there website earlier and I had seen the counter with the number of nodes setup so far; and thought I wonder what the largest site is on there.
They are also on the front of hacker news today as they have just completed a new funding round https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7353868
Oh and forgot they also only offer SSD disks.
I would like to see something along this line but also being flexible.
Putting on my freelance / business hat I could see business would be interested in such an idea but only if (A) the price was right (B) your product resolved an issue other products have.