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How My Start-Up Failed
Original EnglishI failed because I thought I could use greed and let people save a lot of money.
You Are Not Paid to Write Code
Original EnglishAnd I wouldn't have been paid any more if the project had instead resulted in an extra $12 million in revenue.
Microsoft launches Office for iPad
Original EnglishI stopped using VMWare Fusion, for example, because they got into the habit of releasing paid upgrade versions that were required in order to run …
Launch HN: Skyvern (YC S23) – open-source AI agent for browser automations
Original EnglishI made a LinkedIn post about it yesterday, but the funniest has been our customer DoSing our service by accident (sending 10K tasks per hour …
Ask HN: When do you know your startup has failed?
Original EnglishI've run one startup that failed outright after 18 months with 10 grand still left in the bank, and I've run one that scraped through …
Hacking PayPal Accounts with one click
Original EnglishI should have reported all of the bugs instead of exploiting them regardless of the insulting lack of any bounty.
The Joy and Agony of Haskell in Production
Original EnglishI am not a professional developer (never gotten paid to write software) but now do some prototyping code in Haskell so real engineers can pick …
Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?
Original English- Google calendar: I failed at integrating this with Trello, but otherwise, this is an excellent tool for scheduling your day (exercise hours, recurring tasks …
Startups in 13 Sentences
Original EnglishI have check marks next to 8 of these, and I'm working on a 9th (ironically, #9 -- "Get ramen profitable"); but I've broken 4 …