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		ddw on Sept 4, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What's your best startup idea that you're ... Heroku for queue jobs. Pay by the minute. Basically I hate maintaining an AWS instance that is idle most of the time. And Heroku will only get you so far. It would probably be difficult to make profits on because you'd be charging slices of a penny at a time...

prohor on Sept 4, 2014 | [–]

No exactly this, but take a look on http://www.picloud.com/

whatthemick on Sept 4, 2014 | | [–]

I've been thinking about something similar, an autoscaling job queue that could run off your own servers (via API) so you could decide the pricing/power you want.

blooberr on Sept 4, 2014 | [–]

Does http://www.iron.io/ fit your usecase?

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