In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the differences between building it yourself vs paying for a service to do it for you, such as cron jobs, checkout, hosting, images, video, and more.

Show Notes * 00:24 Welcome * 03:19 Buying vs building topic * 07:09 Strategy * 09:50 Escapability * 14:56 Services You Could Use * Sentry * Postmark * 16:34 Efficiency of using a service * 18:08 Cron jobs * 20:43 Checkout * Recurly * Lemon Squeezy * Stripe * Braintree * 24:29 Hosting * 26:00 Screenshots and open graph images * Cloudinary * Vercel OG * Puppeteer * 29:25 Search * Algolia * Elastic * MongoDB * 33:32 Auth * PasswordJS * 36:55 Images * 39:46 Video Hosting * Vimeo * Mux * Amazon Kinesis

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