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

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After VWO’s acquisition, its founder reflected on workflow problems, customer feedback, and keeping growth within the means of the business.

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Solve a problem people will pay for before expanding the team.

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Tool picks

Elixir/Erlang Hot Swapping Code (2016)

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* We use edeliver to deploy the hot upgrades/releases from the CI container to the server container.

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Hard lessons

Why I’m not leaving Python for Go

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because I use C for very specific reasons (when it is totally OK for reasons of speed or control to write a decent amount more …

Y2252392012-09
Field notes

New U.S. immigration rules spur more visa approvals for STEM workers

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We hired a person with a MechE degree with experience working at JPL into our customer support because they are so in love with the …

Y2243942023-12
Business ideas

Show HN: Shortwave: Enjoy Your Inbox

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Currently I use FastMail as my email provider, and Mail.app as my client.

Y2241232022-02
Field notes

MLB.com is using my Google Analytics code

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the code that I'd been building for the past 6 years and offered a nice little side business to clients in his area. …

Y2241352014-03
Business ideas

Programmer Passion Considered Harmful

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Until one day The company said we are making 25% profit and they don’t do anything that does not net 50% profit so they sold …

Y2241582015-03
Hard lessons

Ask HN: Examples of profitable little free web tools?

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The chat component did really well so over time I built it up - currently it brings in about $2k per month in sales and …

Y2231222014-12
Business ideas

Launch HN: Be Golden (YC S22) – Measure and manage your inflammation levels

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I think I paid ~$500 for it but that gives a much more holistic view.

Y2231542022-08
Hard lessons

Coding Horror and blogs.stackoverflow.com experience "100% Data Loss"

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I didn't actually lose data like Jeff, but the datacenter the server was in decided to kill the power to the machine 2 weeks before …

Y2231652009-12

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