peecho and the 4 secrets of global domination
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Secret 1: be lazyCreating and marketing great websites is really hard...
So we sell from other people’s websites.
Running a print facility is really hard....
So we produce our products in other people’s factories.
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Large EC2 spot instances Multi-AZ EC2 instances
REST API Multiple SQS queues
2. Order
intake
Multi-AZ RDS
1. Button
checkout
No-SQL SimpleDB
3. Product
processing
S3 file storage
SQS queue
Multi-AZ EC2 instances
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Secret 2: be lazyCreating and managing infrastructure is really hard...
So we use other people’s services as much as we can.
Raising money is really hard...
So our system scales down capacity and costs when it can.
Predicting the future is really hard...
So we try not to think ahead. Instead, we try to be fast.
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Secret 3: be lazy
‘The Facebook Like for cloud printing’
‘The print button of the internet’
‘From pixels to print’
Marketing your own product is really hard...
So we try to let other people do that for us.
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Secret 4: work hardMarketing partners must be fed with scoops
Customers must be convinced of the value proposition
Customers must be convinced to place the button
Customers must be convinced to use marketing power to sell products
Facility connections must be implemented and managed
Orders must be tracked for customer service
Cloud print platform must develop continuously
All systems must be refactored mercilessly