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

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Google Console closed testing requirements are awful

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I paid the $25 fee, submitted my passport and bank statements for ID verification, and started the process to get my app published.

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Secret Code Phrases to Get What You Want from Your Graphic Designer

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Have been doing it for 15 years worked with Fortune100 and small clients and government.

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Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify

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Now I use a payment provider (bank) instead and it costs nothing except the payment processor fee I already had to pay.

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Hadoop “fails us”

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We can build better data infrastructure for data scientists, but in practice it's hard to sell "10x easier to use" into organizations with hadoop or …

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Ask HN: How to send SMS cheaper than Twilio?

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I built this originally to meet the needs of my brother's business and his customers.

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Ask HN: What is (is there something) wrong with me?

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because i left a job others coveted and paid well. …

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Ask HN: Can you get to AWS?

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our client is the target because the Russian team claims responsibility opened up a trouble ticket with us (not hosted in AWS) about 2 hours …

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North American Object Storage Service Impact

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I designed/deployed a decent sized Meraki network about 4 years ago - at the time it was one of the larger full-stack Meraki networks that …

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Better Volunteering for Web Geeks

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We offer a standard support package as part of the host fee ($50/month, free 1/2 hour of support via the help desk).

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