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Ask HN: How to start earning $500/month in passive income in next 12-18 months?
Original EnglishLong story short I bought 80% of the business a few weeks ago and I'm working on those things right now.
Ask HN: Considerations when asked to write a book?
Original EnglishI tried to get my scope smaller, but the things are still changing faster than I can process them, never mind explain.
Ask HN: How many of you built a profitable startup while having a day job?
Original EnglishI was the sole owner, never had more than 7 employees, and I sold it for a bit over $10M (ttm revenue was around $700k …
Interview with John O'Nolan of Ghost
Original EnglishSo the pricing model of ghost is problematic because:
Joyent ending "lifetime" hosting accounts
Original EnglishI've used Slicehost (now Rackspace) successfully for a couple of years, but my pricing is probably terrible now.
Show HN: Bagels – TUI expense tracker
Original Englishthe weekend I spent 4 hours writing a terminal based expense tracker with a sole focus on making it easy to see income vs expenses …
Curl Security Audit
Original Englishthe tools the language gives me, and I can't accept binaries that the SOCs I've used can't even load into memory because of their size. …
What happens when the U.S. President uses your startup for a conference call
Original EnglishEven still, they will never recoup their costs from this one call even if OFA remains a $9.99/month subscriber for a decade.
Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?
Original EnglishI got 10k free users just by emailing my list, but 0 paying users.