First YC Fellowship Virtual Demo Day

> Because if you're really running a business then any decision other than just paying the $200 to not have to think about certs more than one day every three years is probably not justifiable.

From the same data I came to the reverse conclusion, having auto-renewing certs from LetsEncrypt is awesome. Combined with bog standard cron jobs you now don't have to worry about any manual intervention down the road.

Compare that with creating a new key, creating a CSR, comparing SSL cert prices, getting aggravated at paying $10/year for 1ms of compute time (to sign the cert), grumbling to yourself, buying the cert, waiting for email confirmation, confirming domain ownership via insecure SMTP email, waiting for the cert to be issued, downloading a zip of the cert that somehow isn't the same name/format as your notes from last time, unzipping the zip file, figuring out the order for the cert chain, uploading it via SCP to your server, copying it over the old cert yet also accidentally keeping a copy of the cert/key in the default ubuntu@myhost home directory with 644 permissions, and finally testing it from your browser (only to find that you didn't send a SIGHUP to nginx so it's still providing the old cert).

So yes, having to think about certs more than one day (the day I set it up) is not justifiable.

PS: Why the hell are you paying $200 anyway? At most it should be $30, i.e. $10/year x 3 years. That looks more in line with wildcard SSL prices.

It's not a "similar idea", it was the exact same thing. Google "AirBnB for retail." :)

This company is going to face a really tough road ahead if they don't execute properly. Including convincing Storefront's old customers that they're going to do it right.