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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Hard lessons

How I Feel as Young Father Involved in Early-stage Startup

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At one point about 5 years ago, I tried and failed to start a company with a colleague, then tried and failed to start consulting.

Y1831382014-05
Hard lessons

Natural Language for Developers

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I had a number of "bugs" whereby my "story" was correct, but attempts to test it failed and only after I gave up and let …

Y183562016-06
Tool picks

NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't

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I just use the same set of scripts on all of my servers to make management easier.

Y1821682024-10
Business ideas

Ask HN: Why don't more open-source projects monetize?

Original English

Raising the price to £50 actually resulted in more sales, and fewer "Your application sucks" support-requests.

Y1811232017-05
Business ideas

Ask HN: What has been your most profitable side/weekend project to date?

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Admittedly it's a very low overhead project (costs around $30 / month to run), but so far it's looking good.

Y1811562011-07
Tool picks

99Wh Battery Linux Laptop

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The firmware is more than okay for me; I managed to cross-compile their "control centre" to allow me to change performance/fan characteristics on the fly.

Y1812322022-11
Tool picks

Racket Is an Acceptable Python (2019)

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Years ago I tried saving trained Keras weights and using them in Racket with the Matrix support: it works, but not very fun to use.

Y1811282022-05
Hard lessons

Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced chips for a PC

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Instead I got heat/noise of the M1 and far better performance, for a fraction of what my 2015 cost (unadjusted) new.

Y1812082023-10
Business ideas

Coming soon: Stripe CTF3, distributed systems edition

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I thought it was hard but not that hard", and decided to try to find a few security bugs in open source software... …

Y181442014-01

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