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My product failed
Original EnglishPerhaps because I've failed miserably at converting users, I know exactly what doesn't work (insert winky face here).
Ask HN: Want to join a startup as a developer, looking for a mentor
Original Englishthe past 5 years, mostly fixing bugs and building new features or parts of the applications I have worked on. …
Publish your Python function to PiCloud and invoke via REST
Original EnglishWe've built redundancy across our system so that you don't have to design a system to handle server failure.
Ask HN: Do you think career and family is either-or?
Original EnglishIt's gone well for me, but there were scary parts...it increased the personal stress a lot in times like when my start-up/s failed.
Ask HN: Where did all the Product Managers go?
Original Englishwe not build certain features had, in fact, produced a quagmire in which we discovered a misset-for-years setting which produced a -15% offset in revenue. …
Ask HN: How should organize and back up 23 TiB of personal files?
Original EnglishI am just a big fan of how low-maintenance my unRAID setup is compared to when I used to do it all manually.
Ask HN: How would you invest $50,000?
Original English(But then, OP only is spending $50K, and, uh, by the time the project was able to support me, that was maybe 4-5 months of …
No-code is the future of programming. That's great news for engineers
Original EnglishWhoops, you better have a billion dollars because we charge you per request or some other insane pricing model.
Reflections on startup life: Week 76 (Y Combinator Interview)
Original EnglishOn reflection I think the questioning about Delicious that we failed to articulate was not "how are we different" in a feature sense, but 'what …