And how did I vote?
Dec/071
Don’t read this if you’re going to vote for an AWS start-up . . . scroll down . . .
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Brainscape: Out (obviously University-backed, so not a real startup IMHO)
Commerce360, JustinTV, Ooyala: These are just ad vehicles, and, hence, promoting the worst aspects of the web.
MileMeter: Doesn’t sound like they make enough use of AWS. Great idea, though, and obviously the only one that returns any value to society.
WeoGeo: They have other products, so I can’t consider this a real startup (nice guys, though).
So that leaves, by process of elimination:
UserTesting.com, who have the lamest video and the fewest votes. Still, I can tell you that providing testers on demand is something that someone is going to provide sooner or later; and it is potentially a services hawg, so appropriate for AWS.
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8:15 pm on December 3rd, 2007
John,
Thanks for your encouraging words regarding MileMeter! We currently use EC2 for our load balancers, app servers, and databases, and FPS as our default payment option. Obviously, we’ll use them more once we go live with our public ecommerce site.
I think you’d also find it interesting to know that all of our applications (ecommerce site, policy management, claims management, and accounting) are written in Ruby. We are also considering open-sourcing the accounting package.
-Chris