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Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?
Original EnglishThe code itself is open source so it's self-hostable and free, but we provide a quick one-line deploy hosted solution as well.
Ask HN: Is it too late to do a startup after 35?
Original EnglishI can't gamble my income as I could before, I've never gone more than 1 month without income despite having been through more than half …
Cloudkick (YC W09) hits 1,000,000 servers
Original EnglishThat costs us $20/month, except we're doing it on a server that was already required for another service and had plenty of disk and CPU …
Tests' Influence on Design
Original Englishthe cost, however, of significantly decreased freedom to refactor the implementation aggressively, which is why Discovery Testing recommends developers default to deleting-and-redeveloping local sub-trees of …
Selling Umbrellas In A Synagogue
Original EnglishBut for some high margin products in targeted environments I have paid in excess of $100 per click.
Ask HN: What is something exciting you're working on?
Original EnglishI have developed a pipeline that integrates/automates state-of-the-art algorithms, which I use to serve clients (biotech and academic labs).
Launch HN: Signadot (YC W20) – Lightweight Test Environments for Microservices
Original EnglishWe worked with a few enterprise companies for over a year to come up with an architecture that can support complex microservice environments.
Apple’s iPhone App Refund Policies Could Bankrupt Developers
Original English(+) But even if they did cost 30%, that would be under 1% of gross sales.
How Snapchat Built a Business by Confusing Olds
Original Englishthis area because they have a pricing model where they want to charge per "screen" (we use Echostar, but I believe the other providers have …