How we are headed for the 1 person 1 week 1-million user startup

1. The No Stack Startup
Video Hackday Presentation
@albertwenger

3. The 90s:
Everything from Scratch

4. Once Upon a Time
• Connectivity: dedicated bandwidth at $10,000 per
month
• Servers: $20,000 per box
• Storage: $1,000/GB
• Software licenses: $20,000+ to get started (Solaris,
Oracle)

5. The early 00s:
Dedicated Hosting

6. Oh So Modern
• Connectivity: starting as low as $1,000/month
• Servers: $1,000/month for minimal set up
• Storage: $10/GB
• Software: LAMP stack - free!

7. The late 00s, early 10s:
Amazon Web Services

8. Cloudy
• Connectivity: pay as you go, 10 cents/GB
• Servers: pay as you go, 20 cents/hour
• Storage: pay as you go, 12 cents/GB
• Software: Ruby on Rails, Node.js, MongoDB

9. Now:
No Stack

10. No Stack
Create new experiences and solutions
by composing services with APIs

11. Service / API for Everything
• Voice calls, text messages eg Twilio
• Video recording and playback eg Ziggeo
• Image and video classification eg Clarifai
• Synchronization eg Firebase (Google)
• Fraud detection eg Sift
• Forms eg Typeform
• File uploads eg Filepicker
• Search eg Algolia
• Feeds eg Stream.io

12. Examples
• Applicant tracking: Typeform + Ziggeo
• Mobile sales: Twilio + Stripe
• Video speed dating: Tokbox + Firebase

13. Why?
• Minimize development work, focus on user
experience / business model innovation
• Immediately support global reach
• Pay as you go, often start with free tier
• Benefit from scale economies and network effects
of underlying services

14. Scriptable Integration
• IFTTT
• Zapier
• More to come

15. 1-person 1-week
1-million user startup

16. Have Fun!
@albertwenger