[cloudjacker]

My tech startup was just a processing server for Stripe payments, of which the static website had a single thing to buy. If its not clear all the money was made from people buying the product itself.

Heroku worked perfect for that. The $7/mo was fine.

Only reason I write this is because I wish there was a book of tech architecture case studies. What problem or business venture they were trying, what architecture they chose, how much it cost, how it worked out for them and what they wish they did.

[Raed667]

What kind of DB did you have? As I recall, the 7$ offer only supported 10000 rows of PostgreSQL?

[cloudjacker]

Stripe was the DB

[Raed667]

I see, and if you were to use your own DB to keep track of users, transactions and sold items. Would you still recommend that same solution?

[cloudjacker]

Unlikely, but Stripe has those features in its Customer object. If you want to make some sort of pre-cognitive recommendations engine, then do what you need to do that. These are premature optimizations I would never need.

[caseymarquis]

I would immediately buy that book.