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

Their experience.
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Discover hard-earned lessons, useful tools, and business ideas
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Real experiences, useful perspectives, and things you wish you’d known.

Tool picks

Tarsnap – Online backups for the truly paranoid

Original English

I agree with you that you need backups from the start, but whether they cost $.02 per month or $10 per month initially really doesn't …

Tool picks

Why git is so fast (or why Java is not as fast as C)

Original English

The client needs to be non-java, to avoid the startup cost there.

Hard lessons

Errors from Microsoft's Cloud

Original English

However, I do remember that I was once trying to push Azure as a solution and they promptly had an outage.

Business ideas

Ask HN: I built a Yubikey-based domain controller. Is it sellable?

Original English

I once worked in R&D where our competitive advantage was in keeping our customer relationships and intellectual property private, so we kept everything on-prem.

Business ideas

Japan stocks plunge as much as 7% as Asia shares extend sell-off

Original English

The pole only costs $200, and the vast majority of the value is created through my time and labor.

Tool picks

From Gatsby gridlock to Astro bliss: my personal site redesign

Original English

I made a couple of landing pages for clients and my own projects with Astro and the maintenance experience was eye-opening.

Hard lessons

We shut down our startup

Original English

We’ve spent $40 on marketing from that time I had business cards printed.

Tool picks

Dropped IE support for Instapaper

Original English

I estimate that supporting IE6 has added more than 30% of the interface development costs to the complex projects I have worked on that use …

Hard lessons

Always ship trunk: Managing change in complex websites

Original English

the idea that the release and deployment tools are where the real benefit is is really becoming apparent - the version-control system is necessary, but …

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