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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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My Year as an Amateur Android Game Developer
Original EnglishI've been in the android market for a year and have done over $100k in sales of my games, and you hit the nail on …
I've got 10 btc for the best CoffeeScript/JavaScript Nodewar bot
Original EnglishLater I came back, and turned out my progress was not saved.
Can a business work with its billing code open?
A Read the Docs participant shared their open-source approach, shifting the discussion from copying code to delivering a service.
Copyable code does not automatically reproduce a trusted service.
Ask HN: Is anybody getting value from AI Agents? How so?
Original EnglishI haven't used Klarna, but a few other products I've used are unsupported now because human support were replaced with AI "support" that is completely …
A Common Pricing Mistake
Original EnglishPeople think about costs more because those are hidden from the customer and can be constantly twiddled.
Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
Original Englishwe moved all our VMs from Linode to Storm because we lost confidence in Linode (DDOS, security, lack of transparency) even though the ratio performance/cost/reliability …
Migration from Postgres to Datomic
Original Englishbut not as often as we released), but not all of the build, deployment, and infrastructure tools and config you would actually need to turn …
Ask HN: Recommend employers with positive social impact
Original EnglishEven the most well meaning startups I've worked with eventual devolve into doing "harm with a smile" to their customers.
Purchasing Power Parity: Fair pricing for SaaS products
Original EnglishHowever, with this extreme of the example I made above there are going to be huge difference in particularly opportunity cost.