Category Archives: Keyapt

Leaner Ries’ Pieces and Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

Posted on January 18, 2012 by

Last night I went to TechHub to see Eric Ries coach 4 start-ups in lean start-up thinking. Eric (32) is a brilliant and inspirational speaker. He had his own successful start-up and then spent a lot of time thinking about … Continue reading →

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EC2 reserved instances for baseload

Posted on December 16, 2011 by

Amazon recently announced new options for their EC2 reserved instances. http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/reserved-instances/?ref_=pe_8050_22086710 With this product you pay a small amount up-front for a reserved instance and in exchange Amazon will lower your hourly rate. The more you pay the lower the … Continue reading →

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Amazon AWS add IAM support to Elastic Beanstalk

Posted on November 29, 2011 by

The announcement from Amazon keep getting better and better. I am very pleased that we selected AWS as the platform for Keyapt. Keyapt SMS uses Elastic Beanstalk but until now the development team had to share a login. Today Amazon … Continue reading →

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Review of AppCircus at Techhub

Posted on November 17, 2011 by

Last night’s AppCircus event at was a good show. Very professional and well curated. Unfortunately I missed the deadline to speak but Keyapt SMS is listed in their app database. Some interesting apps were presented. The ones to watch are … Continue reading →

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Day 1 figures have been posted on blog.keyapt.com

Posted on November 9, 2011 by

I won’t make a habit of cross-posting from blog.keyapt.com so if you want to see our first first day’s download figures  (which contain some surprise) go there. If you would like to be kept informed please “follow” the blog by … Continue reading →

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R53 Fox is great for managing Amazon Route53

Posted on October 10, 2011 by

Amazon Route 53 is a great way to manage the DNS entries of your cloud services. A key feature is its ability to map your domain apex such as “keyapt.com” to an elastic load balancer instance. To actually create the … Continue reading →

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Keyapt – how to get an AJAX application in the Google index.

Posted on September 26, 2011 by

Our Android application Keyapt SMS is coming along nicely. Chris is tweaking the session management and I am doing the marketing plan. Keyapt SMS has three parts: the Android Application, the Web Client and the Keyapt Server in the middle … Continue reading →

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