Building Product from ground up using Open Source Technologies
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Amit Goel, founder and CEO of Patterbuzz, created a platform that allows users to pay for individual magazine content on mobile devices. The project began with limited resources and utilized various open-source technologies to establish a website, backend systems, and mobile applications. Patterbuzz aims to disrupt the publishing industry by providing a customizable reading experience and has navigated challenges with a lean development approach.
Building Product from ground up using Open Source Technologies
- 1. Building a Product from ground up using Open Source Tech Amit Goel Founder & CEO, Patterbuzz www.patterbuzz.com
- 2. About Me l Founder & CEO, Patterbuzz l More than a decade in Pay TV Software Industry l Worked in the area of Targeted Ads, Digital Publishing, Set Top Boxes, OTT, VoD, ... l Co-founded a dot com after college in 1999. Went Bust. :-)
- 3. About Patterbuzz l Patterbuzz unbundles the premium content from magazines, enabling users to pay for what they read, on their mobile devices, providing the best of reading experience.
- 5. Task : Disrupt Publishing Industry and show it a new vision. One Guy (Me, Myself) 80,000 Rupees A Laptop running Ubuntu 12.04 No Office Full of passion to make 'it' happen
- 6. And here came the Angel ...
- 7. Task : Build a quick website . Com'on, it's a company, a website is must. Wordpress Gimp AWS cloud ( EC2 ) Cost : 1 day and Free AWS Micro instance
- 8. And Patterbuzz took off ....
- 9. Task : Build the backend Publisher Backend, API Server Java, Spring, Hibernate TinyMCE Cloud(AWS) : EC2, S3, RDS (mysql), Cloudfront, SQS, SNS, SES Cost : 4 months, 3 developers and a monthly AWS fee of Rs 3000/- approx.
- 10. Turbulent times ahead ...
- 11. Task : Build the hybrid iPAD App Open Source in iOS ? Not the Apple libraries but developers have done a lot of open source in iOS . IOS open source AFNetworking, cocoa-http-server, pdKeychainBindings Some open source javascript libraries imgLiquid, spin.js, timeago, jsoup Cost : 4 months , 2 developers and a Mac book Pro worth Rs 82,000/-
- 12. Task : Build the Full fledged website Bootstrap, Masonry, jsoup, jquery, lazyload, detectmobilebrowser, offcanvas, and many more ... And the blog still runs on Wordpress. Integrated Carrier billing for payments , zero hassle. Cost : 2 months and 2 developers
- 13. Task : We needed the search Apache Solr comes to the rescue.. Used MoreLikeThis for recommendations Cost : just a few days of technology time spent to begin for the initial run ...
- 14. Task : Android Phone App No life without Android ... Android itself is open source, and we just had the world And our good old ubuntu was back in action
- 15. Time to spread the word ...
- 16. Task : Mass Mailing System Cost : 4 hours and $60
- 17. And we want to fly much higher ... Thank You !!!