This was my noob submission to HN. I appreciate the helpful feedback on Mistash and have started to make some changes. I think next time I will have to post earlier in the day to HN to get more eyes. Thanks again everyone!
For staff we are using Google Apps. MailChimp for mailing lists. App testing uses Google Apps. App production (notification emails, etc) uses Amazon SES.
Does seem that way lately. However, I do think Mistash has a better focus on the social aspects than the others and is also going in the best direction for a product focused system. Plus, it's more fun :P
Yup. For now, it combines a personal inventory, your wishlist , and various social features. The idea being that you can discover new products, share your tastes, and get higher quality reviews from the people you know.
Reasons:
Local development with Appengine is pretty bad. Good luck debugging and profiling production issues.
Appengine will make you jump through many hoops that undermine or completely drop pieces of the Django framework.
Getting data out of Appengine is a huge nightmare and timesink.
If you ever decide to migrate off Appengine you will need to rewrite almost everything.