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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.
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Ask HN: What to do if you are ridiculously burnt out?
Original EnglishHe made ~6 sales in 1 month, never lifted a finger in the ~14 months since.
Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup and check restores
Original EnglishHad a near-panic last night where I almost had to tell my wife I lost the last 2 years worth of photos because backups are …
Order/license chaos for VMware products after Broadcom takeover
Original EnglishBut oddly enough, they always gave us more licenses than we paid for.
Dropbox Startup Lessons Learned
Original EnglishSo the business model (from our point of view) is: pay nothing until you're hooked, then its $1,400/year.
How to Sell a Blog for $36,200
Original English- It ended up netting me (sale price aside) maybe $20K in total, and it was my only source of income for a year while …
Ask HN: Has anyone gone from software to physical engineering?
Original EnglishThere is nothing wrong with that, and there is plenty of interesting work in the support activities (I made a career of doing those activities)
EBay is about to increase its seller fees to 10%
Original EnglishStore owners will keep the existing fee schedule, but it will cost them a monthly fee beginning at $16/mo.
Flipkart, Amazon of India, has sales of $100M in one day
Original EnglishWe had deployed nearly 5000 servers and had prepared for 20 times the traffic growth - but the volume of traffic at different times of …
AI converts between hundreds of programming languages
Original EnglishWe saved our client probably $1000 in just one usage of this tool.