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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: How do you come back from a failed acquisition?
Original Englishwe've built a startup that's so disruptive, we nearly had an exit within 2 years - but now we're about to crash and burn.
Lessons from my third year running a SaaS
Original EnglishI try to document everything, and I started a YouTube channel with support videos to keep the support load low.
Ask HN: Has any Rust developer moved to embedded device programming?
Original EnglishWe use a mix of emulators, FPGA simulators, unit testing, static analysis, manual code reviews, and various coding standards to try to avoid introducing a …
Ask HN: Do you pull and run code as part of code review?
Original EnglishI've used the release party approach, and it works, at a high cost.
Deleting Software I Wrote Upon Leaving Employment of a Company
Original EnglishIt's not my job to write code but I do to make my life easier.
Ask HN: What's your experience with remote working? as employees/employers?
Original EnglishI've worked as a (semi-)remote employee for the past 2.5 years for a HUGE multinational software company.
Why Bad Jobs-or No Jobs-Happen to Good Workers
Original EnglishI sell $3 cups of coffee, which is the market rate, but can't get any customers.
MyRedis acquired by Garantia Data, gives customers 3 days to move off
Original EnglishI've spent nearly $50,000.00 of my own savings to build MyRedis, and support my family while doing so.
If you wouldn't pay for my app, your pricing advice is worthless
Original EnglishWhen I was doing freelance web design, you wouldn't believe how many businesses were spending $400/mo on paper YellowPages ads, but couldn't see the value …