FROM BUILDERS, FOR DOERSVOL. 03 / QUALITY-FIRST DISCOVERY

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The Pricing Model That Increased Our Free Trial Signups by 358%

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So we just started charging a flat $25/month (sales-leads fwiw).

Hard lessons

AWS Database Migration Service

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We tried a number of different options but none were reliable.

Tool picks

Software Friction

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I use that concept constantly in my work for backwards compatibility, but basically never see it from service providers, which I find sad and somewhat …

Business ideas

My Amazon interview experience

Original English

I go to work every day, but my business, though profitable, isn't large enough yet to hire.

Field notes

Render: a Zero DevOps Cloud Platform

Original English

Aside from seeing the deploy preview URLs, they wouldn't even know that we used Netlify to deploy our static sites.

Business ideas

Nation-scale Matrix deployments will fail using the community version of Synapse

Original English

I have run a Synapse server for almost 8 years, by my reckoning.

Hard lessons

Doing: command line tool for keeping track of what you’re doing and have done

Original English

I managed more than €100k for of work with it without a single loss of data, failure or any kind of issue.

Hard lessons

C++ confessions of a C developer

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I think the failure rate went up because:

Hard lessons

Software Architect – A Role, Not a Job

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I'm a freelance developer with 20 years of experiment and I introduce myself as a software architect even if I'm looking for contracts where I …

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