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Ask HN: Best payment processor?
Original EnglishIts to the point where our customer service chat knows what's going on and says things like "ask the customer to wait 2 minutes, it'll …
Why I Turned Down A $20,000/Year Client
Original English#1 didn't complain at all - provided value, they saved face with their client, and I made $200 in 15 minutes.
Rules for Bootstrapped Web App Startups
Original EnglishI want those 500 customers and the freedom to work on my own IP.
How Google Got Design
Original Englishbut it definitely has lesser feature (in the client side at least) than the desktop clients, is slower and takes many times more memory. …
Ask HN: What is your daily rate?
Original EnglishI don't share my rate publicly because I don't want a client in 2015 to say, "Well, I saw that you were charging $0.5X in …
Launch HN: UpKeep (YC W17) – Basecamp for Facility Maintenance Teams
Original EnglishI had a remote offshore team helping out with some of the work as we grew, but for a long long time it was just …
Show HN: Swift Mail. Fastmail's modern mail standard delivered natively on macOS
Original EnglishI can spare $3, but I don't want to support subscription models.
Selling to small businesses is damn hard. Here’s How.
Original EnglishBackstory: I'm hearing impaired, applied for a job at a small business as a PHP-dev and I spent about 40 hours working on planning the …
Why are clients shocked by the price for web development?
Original EnglishThat type of client is best lead to the $10 website services.