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

Their experience.
Your next move.✳

Discover hard-earned lessons, useful tools, and business ideas
hidden in the conversations on Hacker News.

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Real experiences, useful perspectives, and things you wish you’d known.

Business ideas

Lessons from building nine startups in 2023

Original English

It immediately went viral and I managed to sell it for a decent bump to my income. 5 figures.

Hard lessons

French President announces pro-business measures

Original English

2 years and 80000 so far plus income I lost by not working in 8-5 job in these 2 years.

Tool picks

Ask YC: Startup crisis. Out of money and tech co-founder has bailed.

Original English

4 months into development, she threatened to bail on the project and raise funding for her own startup idea unless I increased her equity stake …

Field notes

Tell HN: I quit my job to bootstrap my startup by myself.

Original English

I only have ~3 months in the bank, but with two part-time clients, I pay all my monthly bills, with the rest of my time …

Tool picks

Ask HN: What is in C-00000291*.sys?

Original English

But if you have a valid customer ID from Crowdstrike, I'm happy to point you the little tool I use.

Tool picks

Ask HN: What info do you web scrape for?

Original English

Mostly did this because for now I'm just using a free pythonanywhere account and their firewall would block all of this without a paid account.

Tool picks

Dehydrated: Letsencrypt/acme client implemented as a shell-script

Original English

I used this years ago to implement SSL for a bunch of customer vanity domains, and as far as I know it's still operating.

Hard lessons

Linux dominates supercomputers as never before

Original English

I was able to install Linux on it, but it failed to boot.

Business ideas

Why we kept our startup in Australia

Original English

Do not get me started, yes getting a business setup is easy but the fun begins when you realize you are in for a lot …

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