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Ask HN: SQLite in Production?
Original EnglishBy far the biggest performance improvement I found was turning on memory mapping for SQLite.
Launch HN: Bucket Robotics (YC S24) – Defect detection for molded and cast parts
Original Englishwe run it purely on-device so that customer images don’t need to leave their worksite. We charge customers by the model — when they plan …
Friday.app is shutting down
Original EnglishI've built an app that I haven't touched in many years with about $1M in monthly revenue (extremely low margin) and it's all good.
Why a Brit chose to start a business in Berlin
Original EnglishI worked on a German startup for 3 years in Berlin
Selling to the Fortune 500, Government, and Other Lovecraftian Horrors (2013)
Original EnglishBut I don't think that most people consider $70 "personal pricing".
Which is better: Many customers at low price-point or few at high price?
Original EnglishBoth company Bs are a little over 10 years old, and still run the same software they started out with.
Google Drops Pricing On Cloud Storage by 20%
Original EnglishWe've looked at AWS, but we'd pay a lot more - and that's without factoring in the cost of a good sysadmin to support it.
Joel on Software: The new Fog Creek Office
Original Englishour revenue today on 5,000 sqft of office space, but have outgrown it and it's no longer the nice spacious office we started with. …
Being a Solo Founder of a 24x7 Hosted Web Application
Original Englishthis is a funny story affecting 2% of my time, I've made a process improvement to avoid it in the future (I now do customer …