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Amazon’s New Cloud Prices Show That Google Is Now a Threat
Original EnglishGCE's pricing model is harder to estimate your bill with, but I actually like the idea of not being "stuck" if I want to be …
Getting to No: The Key to Startup Selling
Original English80% of my job was selling to wealthy individuals our service of being a guide to better donations.
Disruptions: With No Revenue, an Illusion of Value
Original EnglishI just paid a 12.4% dividend on investments for the first quarter.
Gondor expands its Django hosting to any Python WSGI app
Original EnglishFWIW, I did spend about 3 days in my spare time and have a working model/scripts necessary to deploy Ubuntu/Postgresql/Nginx should the need arise....but I …
Ask HN: Living overseas with a profitable online business
Original EnglishThis took almost 2 months and cost 10 pounds.
iAd Producer from Apple
Original EnglishWe actually saved quite a chunk of change by not "upgrading" to that version, not only in costs to Adobe to buy the software, but …
How Amazon took control of the cloud
Original EnglishThe deployment story just given the tools was always far better on Amazon for example, but that may have changed.
2.5M Installs Later, R.I.P. Downloader for SoundCloud
Original EnglishGiven the high retention rate and overall user numbers I could have gotten way more out of it, but I was frankly not interested in …
Show HN: an alternative to AdSense
Original Englishbut I spent a lot of time tweaking the matching algorithm rather than on the sales/pitch side), and pitched it as an easier way to …