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

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Real experiences, useful perspectives, and things you wish you’d known.

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Ask HN: Please, help me understand what I am doing wrong.

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Don't get discouraged by the "I built this supermassive startup in 2 hours that got bought for 80 bajillion dollars" type stories.

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Last call to voluntarily migrate Java accounts

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They've been publicizing this migration for at least a few years - I think I migrated my migration after a communication in 2020).

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Render: a Zero DevOps Cloud Platform

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Aside from seeing the deploy preview URLs, they wouldn't even know that we used Netlify to deploy our static sites.

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Mary Meeker’s eye-popping annual Internet Trends report hits the web

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These guys were paying $10K - $40K per color page in Golf Digest so maybe $250K an issue and we were asking them to pay …

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Tell HN: A Demo Day without the investors

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When Harry (my co-founder) and I started Trevor.io we obviously needed customers.

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Ask HN: I think My code isn't Good enough

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But the code isn't' throwing exceptions, it doesn't have bugs, and the customers are asking for new features, not fixes.

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Launch HN: Litebulb (YC W22) – Automating the coding interview

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After we offered to hop on a call and to be available for support, we saw dropoff reduced to less than 15%.

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Why Small Businesses Aren’t Spending More on Tech

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I wonder if there could be a hidden cost however, in the downsides of not investing in technology stacks, specifically for business with maybe a …

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Why Software Projects Are Terrible And How Not To Fix Them

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I saved my last company from many disasters because the boss decided to let his 20 year old wife with absolutely no experience make business …

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