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Ask HN: Profitable SaaS? How did you grow your business?
Original EnglishI launched a free API 4 years ago, and in January 2015 I introduced paid plans, which offered several benefits over the free service.
Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and from what?
Original EnglishI also earn a tiny $150/year from Amazon affiliate sales on a running/sports web site I built 10 years ago, and has good Google rankings.
Show HN: Smozzy (for Android/T-Mobile) - browse the web without a data plan
Original Englishbut decent fixed costs: it doesn't cost the carrier much to support you as a marginal user, but they have put tens of billions into …
Why do web sites and software take so long to build? And why is it so hard?
Original EnglishThat image data was already in memory since it was getting read from disk in a separate step, but there was really no way for …
Spotify raises $1B in debt with devilish terms to fight Apple Music
Original EnglishI've paid for premium for over 2 years but switched when I got my watch because there was no app for Spotify (only third party …
Ask HN: How to actually “talk to your customers”?
Original EnglishEventually we raised the mythical Silicon Valley VC money and got our first Fortune 100 customers, but the process stayed remarkably similar:
Apache PLC4X announcing end of community support due to missing funding
Original EnglishI wrote it in my own blog, because I am stopping free commmunity support for myself.
AT&T's website raising the price every time I refresh the page
Original EnglishI built web sites for a mid-sized B2B and B2C company, and had to build all kinds of games into the pricing.
What no one talks about when running and selling a business
Original EnglishI bootstrapped my company, I took no salary for the first 2-3 years, instead I was out consulting to bring in money so I could …