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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.
Solve a problem people will pay for before expanding the team.
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Apple's Relationship with Pro Music Needs Mending
Original EnglishWe deployed a dozen Mac Pros, and four of them suffer from a GPU overheating problem that's widespread but little talked about -- Apple has …
(Android) Developer Income Report #9
Original EnglishBut this works for selling apps, not for advertising revenue.
GitHub is apparently in crisis again
Original Englisha lot of people prefer Bitbucket's interface, tooling, and pricing model for corporate team development (i.e.
Notes from Facebook's Developer Infrastructure at Scale F8 Talk
Original EnglishIt reduced the amount of build failures by 99% and test failures by a similarly high amount.
After a decade of AR projects, they built their own tool
The makers of Ordinary Objects turned recurring production and collaboration pain into a product others could try.
A recurring workaround can be the beginning of a product.
Ask HN: How would you bootstrap a telco?
Original EnglishAbsolutely, it’s an oligopoly, same as many other things in Canada; I think Rogers has a 40% profit margin, that’s rich if you ask me.
Lessons learned from a year as a self-published author
Original EnglishI have also found through more recent experiments that pricing ebook versions less than $5 leads to an immediate and sustained rise in sales.
Reselling Software: Don’t Start a SaaS – White Label Someone Else’s Instead
Original EnglishThe (vanishingly) few customers we have lost, we go through an all-hands soul-searching to understand the "why".
Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for third-party apps
Original EnglishI use is brilliant (relay for reddit pro), not sure what they're doing about this but I'm not using the official client and I only …