How we first built tweetmeme.com in one weekend. Nearly a year later we rebuild the site with API and widgets. The slides show the costs and the impact on running a more complex and much more costly website.
14. LAUNCH PRODUCT!
• TWITTER AGGEGRATOR
• LOOKS FOR LINKS TO CONTENT
• DISPLAYS MOST POPULAR CONTENT
• CATEGORISES THE CONTENT
#LAUNCH
15. WHAT IT COSTS
(LAST YEAR)
• £500 for contract programmer
• 4 hours internal design time
• 4 hours (me programming)
• total man hours = 16
#COSTS
16. WHAT IT COSTS
(LAST YEAR)
• £500 for contract programmer
• 4 hours internal design time
RETURN TO THIS LATER......
• 4 hours (me programming)
• total man hours = 16
#COSTS
36. BEYOND
BOOTSTRAP
(THIS YEAR)
Development
• Monthly Updates
• 10 days x 4 Team
Members
• total man hours = 320
• £10,000 a month
#MORECOS
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37. BEYOND
BOOTSTRAP
(THIS YEAR)
Development Hosting
• •
Monthly Updates Bandwidth £500+
• 10 days x 4 Team • Dedicated Servers
Members £1500+ month
• total man hours = 320 • Cloud Computing
• £10,000 a month • Maintenance
#MORECOS
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48. Technology is Hard to Predict
“What scaling walls will Twitter hit? Obviously
the technology scales pretty well, it's not using
a whole lot of CPU”
Dave Winer, March 2007
#FAIL
49. What We Know...
OAuth
Integration/Purchase
3rd Party API/Products’s
Start of Advertising