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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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I turned my open-source project into a full-time business
Original EnglishNext, I started to increase the pricing; 250€ became 495€, then 695€ and 795€, and finally 895€.
Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?
Original EnglishA simple web site might cost $100m and there'd be exactly 5 people in the world building websites.
Show HN: Drop-in SQS replacement based on SQLite
Original Englishre: maintenance - I have tried to build this to be hands-off.
Puppeteer Support for Firefox
Original EnglishI have a paid claude account, and then I use chatgpt, and meta.ai anon access.
Observable 2.0, a static site generator for data apps
Original EnglishYes, we use continuous deployment (cron) to rebuild as needed.
Show HN: Startup funding simulator
Original EnglishI'm given the option to buy 10,000 shares at $4/share, which is the "Fair Market Value" price. But the investors paid $16/share.
Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading
Original EnglishIt is built on a Phoenix/Elixir setup I wrote from scratch and has been serving my client well without hiccups for the last 5 years.
How to Improve a Legacy Codebase
Original Englishbecause the business case of 'potentially reducing the likelihood of bugs in the future' and 'a story 3 months from now might take 3 days …
Darling – Run Mac apps on Linux
Original EnglishHonestly, better hardware support is one of the reasons that I have started using Linux more and more than proprietary options.