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Original EnglishTheir response to my announcement was to ignore my e-mails and continue to charge me $89.95 per month as though I was still their customer.
Atlas: Visual IDE for Cappuccino Applications
Original EnglishI used to be, but the insane number of projects using it for very real higher-productivity/lower-development-cost gains to me means its author, Gaven King, should …
Why Your Customers Don't Want to Talk to You
Original EnglishI use ATM's instead of walking inside because it's typically faster.
Paperboy – A community of entrepreneurs sharing handy tools for startups
Original EnglishBut our European users need invoices that show what they paid, and it's a manual process for us.
Show HN: SetOps – Run containers, databases and more in your own AWS account
Original EnglishBut the line "you don't need to care how we run containers" bugs me.
Ask HN: Is it possible to create a Saas for passive income while working a job?
Original EnglishAs of last month, we have started taking monthly revenue distributions of $1000 each.
Ask HN: Fired at 51 weeks by prominent startup?
Original English-- these clients had already paid their money, but hadn't received kiosks or software.
The Set-Up-to-Fail Syndrome (1998)
Original EnglishCustomer service is priority one, and my first customers are the people I work with.
Why Programmers Are Bad at Estimating Time
Original EnglishI hate to go back and forth, but I spent 6 years doing freelance work, and I hate to see people repeating my mistakes.