Comments on: Django and More on Google App Engine with App Engine Patch

By: adamfisk

adamfisk — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:17:51 +0000

I hear you Waldemar. I’ve found that a lot recently — good business ideas that would probably be successful, but that just wouldn’t be that much fun to run! If you can create a business that will be both successful and fun, that’s the way to go of course. That’s what I’m shooting for too — heck you only live once and all.

You could actually be very successful using App Engine Patch to help stir up interest in your startup too, depending on the business. I’d expect use of App Engine Patch to go up significantly, especially when App Engine comes out of beta. Heck, Google might even buy it up. I definitely think you’ve got something here.

By: Waldemar Kornewald

Waldemar Kornewald — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:25:08 +0000

Interesting suggestion. Hmm, haven’t spent much thought on making an App Engine + Django support business, probably because I’d rather build web/mobile apps myself, but who knows. Building a startup and making it successful is very difficult.

One of the reasons why we originally decided to release part of our code was because django-helper introduced a new model class. We didn’t want this splitting the open-source community and making code sharing difficult (one group would derive from db.Model and the other from django-helper’s model class). Another reason was that we were very unhappy with how difficult it was to get started with Django on App Engine.

By: adamfisk

adamfisk — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:53:35 +0000

My pleasure Waldemar. It’s really helped me out quite a bit, so thank you. The community seems to be growing just judging from the mailing list traffic, and I think it will only get bigger as App Engine grows. There’s probably a solid business to build around it if you were so inclined.

By: Waldemar Kornewald

Waldemar Kornewald — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:44:26 +0000

Thanks a lot for blogging about app-engine-patch! We really need more people who help build a community.

By: Amre Ellafi

Amre Ellafi — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:42:39 +0000

You made me happy, i lost passion towards GAE lately !

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