Their experience.
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Discover hard-earned lessons, useful tools, and business ideas
hidden in the conversations on Hacker News.
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.
Ideas worth your time3000
Real experiences, useful perspectives, and things you wish you’d known.
I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it
Original EnglishAnecdote: A couple years ago I migrated a 1M+ LOC application from one database to another, cutting the cloud hosting costs practically in half.
A Visa for founders, engineers and investors willing to join France
Original EnglishThe US median white household has an income of $73,000 as of 2016 ($108,000 with a college education) and a median net worth of nearly …
A database for 2022
Original EnglishThe reason is because I don't want to pay Postgres' startup costs every time I run the tests.
“Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the software industry” (2012)
Original English"Competent" deployments with NPM involve enough of a pain in the ass that, after a few years of doing this, I'd actually prefer to manually …
System76 is moving product design and manufacturing in house
Original EnglishSure the up front cost is higher, but the time and money saved on not having to care is priceless.
Startup Ideas
Original EnglishMost companies over $15MM in revenue have at least one person doing this.
“Stop reverse engineering our code”
Original EnglishWe had to do migration from 10g to 11g because Oracle wasn't supporting 10g version anymore.
Things I’ve Learned from Reading IndieHackers
Original EnglishI create products regularly, and many of them make a profit (not a ton yet, but all growing).
When crawlers overwhelm a public service
A discussion of crawler load on a Git service surfaced rate limiting, suspicious request patterns, and the cost of open access.
Public access does not mean unlimited capacity.