FROM BUILDERS, FOR DOERSVOL. 03 / QUALITY-FIRST DISCOVERY

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Ask HN: Any good black Friday deals?

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Oh, and the Gigabyte M28U 144hz 4k 28" monitor that I use is now down to an all-time-low cost of $450.

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Ask HN: How do I get started freelancing?

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I offered him 5% on the next sale if he recommended a client that signed a contract to procure my services.

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ZeroTier Business SSO

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I used to be with the SSO-wall-of-shame crowd...until I had to maintain and support SSO within a production app.

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How we got customers to sign up to Monzo in the early years

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I started off getting Monzo when it advertised itself as a pre-paid debit card and it's big selling point was free foreign ATM transactions.

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Plunk: The open source email platform

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Nuances of self-hosting aside, I'd recommend caution looking at that pricing pane.

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An introduction to reactive programming

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I spent a total of 11 months consulting with a company that built a large (50kloc) financial system in erlang.

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Ask HN: Did anyone's life ever gotten more comfortable after accepting funding?

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I'm running a one-man show trying to reach profitability on a niche market so that I can later do some serious research in the area.

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Ask HN: Anyone making a living from Desktop apps?

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This company made no revenue in its lifetime but was acquired this year.

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Keep the day job and build it on the side...

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But I personally think that doing our own projects has helped us get better, easier-to-work-with clients.

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