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Why some businesses aren't allowed on Stripe
Original EnglishI run a business where I regularly do between 50-100k a month.
Ask HN: % of Free to Paid?
Original EnglishFor example, my Halloween promotions (high volume, reaches way outside of my core customer segments) converted at a rate of 1.3%, just among web app …
Why open floorplans are bad for programming
Original EnglishI've worked this way for 8 years now and clearly enjoy a lot more open floorplans especially when it is "developers-friendly" so no sales team …
How to Be an Indie Game Developer
Original EnglishI am paying a lot of attention to promoting the company and our game, but I really don't expect to make much money this year …
Twitter jilts Ruby for Scala
Original Englishbecause groovy has plenty of faults: the complete lack of any static type checking at compile time and very poor IDE support and error reporting …
Ask HN: Where are the part-time remote coding jobs?
Original EnglishI work full time for a big company, but also have a software-heavy side business which used to make thousands a month in revenue.
Show HN: SaveSlack – create searchable knowledgebase from your Slack community
Original EnglishWe charge a higher price for premium account because we are 2 full time engineers working on this and want to hit profitability so we …
Ask HN: Enough profit to replace a day job?
Original EnglishThe site only had a few hundred visitors a month, however about 10% of those converted and became subscribers.
Rackspace Developer+ Program
Original EnglishI started researching it for myself, and basically trained myself to be much more of an Apache configuration expert over the next 48 hours.