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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paraschopra·2025-01-242246 points
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Solve a problem people will pay for before expanding the team.

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KillBill – Open-Source Subscription Billing and Payment Platform

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But when it's running your billing and it's driving $100,000 or $1 million a month in revenue then it's looked at from an entirely different …

Y167442014-12
Tool picks

IOx: InfluxData’s New Storage Engine

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This is why we made the query API easily cacheable by CDNs and Seafowl itself easy to deploy at the edge, e.g. with Fly.io.

Y167292022-10
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Java Virtual Threads: A Case Study

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And I use ktor client in the browser.

Y1671892024-07
Business ideas

Berlin is now in a position to usurp London as the startup capital of Europe

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So, very likely, you'll be spending more than 1/3 of your income on rent in metro Paris, if you earn 50k, so a greater fraction …

Y1671462016-06
Hard lessons

Announcing the new Rust package manager, Cargo

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I was having trouble with (including a bug that was triggering occasional 100% CPU usage on some machines), and has cleaned up the process of …

Y1671362014-03
Business ideas

A retired product can leave an active workflow behind

A former Yahoo Pipes enthusiast built an RSS mashup tool to revisit a workflow they missed.

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Retired products offer demand clues, but nostalgia is not willingness to pay.

#Niche products#Customer discovery#Indie hacking
Y166392025-01
Business ideas

Open Source on its own is no alternative to Big Tech

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A sales position I was working in 2017 was the first time I'd used Windows 10.

Y1661922024-10
Tool picks

Why isn’t New Zealand richer and more productive?

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the time-zone is an advantage when it comes to deployment - a 4am deployment German time is happily within normal 9 - 5 hours in …

Y1661632014-04
Business ideas

Show HN: WrapAPI v2 – Build APIs, scrapers, bots on any website

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Padmapper looks amazing but, really, it's only applicable for the upper middle class due to explosive housing costs in the Bay Area.

Y166602017-04

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