Randall Degges

The personal website of Randall Degges: programmer, speaker, author and entrepreneur.

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Heroku Isn't for Idiots: developer time and comparative advantage

2012237 points127 comments Tech Industry & Business details

My rant on David Cramer's The Cloud is Not For You: Heroku is just Ubuntu, enforces twelve-factor apps, has New Relic, and saved my team time and money.

My Startup, a Retrospective

2014158 points34 comments Startups details

Two years of OpenCNAM, my Caller ID API startup: the weekend MVP, the Django to Flask rewrite, the cold emails that won customers, and my mistakes.

Caller ID Made Simple

2012152 points64 comments Startups details

I'm building OpenCNAM with friends: a simple API that returns caller ID names for phone numbers, with a free tier of 60 queries an hour, no account needed.