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Building a Product from ground up using Open Source Tech
Amit GoelFounder & CEO, Patterbuzz
www.patterbuzz.com
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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. :-)
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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.
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The Starting Point
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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
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And here came the Angel ...
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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
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And Patterbuzz took off ....
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Task : Build the backend
Publisher Backend, API Server
Java, Spring, Hibernate
TinyMCECloud(AWS) : EC2, S3, RDS (mysql),
Cloudfront, SQS, SNS, SES
Cost : 4 months, 3 developers and a monthly AWS fee of Rs
3000/- approx.
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Turbulent times ahead ...
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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/-
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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
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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 ...
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Task : Android Phone AppNo life without Android ...
Android itself is open source,
and we just had the world
And our good old ubuntu was back in action
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Time to spread the word ...
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Task : Mass Mailing System
Cost : 4 hours , 1 developer and $60 ...
Cost : 4 hours and $60
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And we want to fly much higher ...
Thank You !!!