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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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Convore (YCW11) is reborn as Grove.io, a chat service for businesses
Original EnglishBetter to use a Hipchat or a Grove.io and be up and running in 5 minutes with clients on every device.
How to charge clients: flat fee vs. hourly rate?
Original EnglishFixed rate quotes are dangerous because they make all the pricing decisions at the point where you know the least about the product.
Google j2objc, a Java to iOS Objective-C translation tool and runtime
Original EnglishI used this tool 2-3 years ago (back when it was still hosted on Google Code!).
Why Indian Startups need to get off their asses and learn to program
Original EnglishThe javascript code for this page was an ugly hack, but it worked and was bug free as far as we could tell.
Teams that cannot install software still need tools
A government-agency employee built a lightweight Gantt tool because installation and procurement restrictions blocked alternatives.
An acceptable delivery format is part of product value.
Raspberry Pi kiosks: test recovery after power loss
A community-TV maintainer describes startup failures, repeated power cycles, and storage recovery as operational concerns.
Starting successfully is only the beginning for an unattended system.
Ask HN: How does one go about bringing a hardware product to market?
Original EnglishHaving said that, we're in neurotech, so our software dev cycles are slower than your average software development, but still....
Show HN: Stacktape – Full power of AWS with Heroku-like experience
Original Englishwe charge you not even 10% the cost of a DevOps engineer, therefore by buying Stacktape you will save money." But, apparently, eventually your customer …
Ask HN: What are some examples of successful companies rejected by YC?
Original EnglishThe first time I applied was before I launched our first product and had $0 in revenue.