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

Their experience.
Your next move.✳

Discover hard-earned lessons, useful tools, and business ideas
hidden in the conversations on Hacker News.

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

Hard lessons

Ask HN: I want to start a clothing company.

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So that was 150 shirts to start off, if my memory serves correctly it came out to roughly $4 per t-shirt.

Business ideas

Ask HN: Help me understand online payment gateways

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the point where we found that is the least expensive option for our level of sales (>$10,000/month). …

Business ideas

Ask HN: Is a starting an enterprise software startup worth the hassle?

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Two years ago I sold over $70M in software to just two companies, neither Fortune 500.

Business ideas

Ask HN: As a young developer, how can I launch a successful freelancing career?

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Approximately 80% of my clients came either directly or indirectly through contacts I had met in the few years before I became a freelancer.

Business ideas

Ask HN: Do you have a business idea? Why haven't you tried it?

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However, I'm not very good at identifying ways of turning that into a profitable enterprise.

Field notes

Ask HN: Suggestions for mastering vim?

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I've been using esc, and am comfortable with it, but I'm starting to get used to this, and it's likely going to be faster in …

Business ideas

How To Profit From Selling Digital Products

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I love the impact, and I would absolutely love to go back in and help, but until there's a better (or even sustainable) pricing model …

Tool picks

Building Personal Software with Claude

Original English

Lastly you will hit usage limits while working on projects because it’s a fixed cost offering.

Business ideas

Instant Websites for Nonprofits | Bellstrike

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We very well may introduce a monthly fee that allows nonprofits to only pay the percentag (3.5%) transaction costs that WePay charges.

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