Great post Onur, I didnt know Amazon had a free tier! One of my other preferred tools is Trello.com for visual project management.<p>Great job with Countly! Would have been great to see the workflow you guys employ between the tools + any specific modifications you might have made for an open source tool/community. Maybe next time?
Nice job with Countly, looks really good.<p>This has nothing to do with countly per se, but I think the notion of building products with tools & services that have zero acquisition/billing cost is becoming passe. There are so many tools and options available and the growth of the freemium business model around the software space ensures a growing ecosystem that's becoming more and more specialized around those tools & services. I believe we're rapidly approaching an inflection point where use of zero-cost tools & services is nearly expected.<p>Congrats to the team on the choices made in building the product, though. That's where the real value is in the equation.
The current link is to the comments thread. This is the URL you want:<p><a href="http://blog.count.ly/post/33777818277/cost-of-tools-and-services-used-developing-countly-0" rel="nofollow">http://blog.count.ly/post/33777818277/cost-of-tools-and-serv...</a>
I find it hard to believe they're hosting their app on a Micro EC2 instance. I mean, I do believe them but its very surprising. I've heard horror stories about simple blogs coming to a screeching halt when they get anything more than a few hundreds requests in a short time. Is it really possible to host an app like Countly on Amazon's free tier (EC2 specifically)?
If you want to go full cheapskate (not that I disapprove), AppFog has a generous free trier[1], no SSL though.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.appfog.com/products/appfog/pricing/" rel="nofollow">http://www.appfog.com/products/appfog/pricing/</a>
Nice round up of tools, I keep forgetting AWS has a free tier, but mostly as I keep getting random issues with it not activating my account properly.<p>(p.s., the link is pointing to the disqus thread, not the article)
You might want to add Tonido (<a href="http://www.tonido.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.tonido.com</a>) to your
toolset for file sharing. It works great.