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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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Ask HN: What was the job market like during the dot-com crash?

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The housing market became insane and we sold our house, 2 years after buying it, for a 40% profit.

Y1891552014-12
Business ideas

The New American Micro-SaaS Dream

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But I have about 25% revenue growth per month starting from a low level.

Y1891172022-07
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Ask HN: How much do you earn on average through software freelancing?

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Back when I was freelancing, I charged around $150-200/hr for fullstack development.

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Hard lessons

What does it take to run a web app with 5K – 10K users?

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Biggest mistake I ever made was scaling up an active user base on a free product without a revenue model.

Y1891012015-01
Business ideas

Final update on the JetBrains Toolbox announcement

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It matched nearly every other service I use, and it would have cost less (I guess webstorm cost a whole $20 more a year!).

Y189472015-09
Hard lessons

Overpriced Developer Conferences

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~$2k this time around, and would like to break even this year, or perhaps (gasp) make a small profit.

Y1891412012-05
Business ideas

Ask HN: How to setup a company in U.S. without being there?

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I registered one so that 1)it would be easier to accept payments from the US through their native gateways, because in my country, all of …

Y189712012-06
Business ideas

Oracle kills third-party JD Edwards reference website

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In many deployments, I've seen not only business analysts take advantage of a simple programmable environment but also departmental power users.

Y189902014-04
Business ideas

Paypal's fraud prevention routine does it again

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but it's just not possible to go for a competitor, because that would cost you too much sales from clients who don't have/want to use …

Y189882011-02

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