Their experience.
Your next move.✳
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.
If You Build It, They Will Complain
Original EnglishI've worked with people that had spent 10 years at a company, working on my team, as pillars of the company, getting paid 60k/yr, sitting …
Ask HN: Burned out. How can I make the most of a sabbatical leave?
Original EnglishI saw the warning signs of my "batteries" getting low in early 2009, but I kept pressing on at full speed because I wanted to …
Amazon Career Choice Program
Original EnglishFor contrast: Over the 25 years of my professional career, I have worked for a lot of startups.
Ask HN: Is it possible to transition from corporate job to self contractor?
Original Englishthe things he didn't really care for, but I paid attention to. …
RIP Andre Hedrick: The engineer who kept the PC open
Original Englishwe were constantly on the edge of low-cost disk technology (we also built big SCSI boxes, but the low-end ATA boxes were much more popular), …
Show HN: Comprehensive inter-process communication (IPC) toolkit in modern C++
Original EnglishI quote: "To implement zero-copy data transfer we use a shared memory approach.
Ask HN: do founders get a salary after raising angel round?
Original EnglishI worked 3 years at my last startup paying myself the absolute minimum possible.
A Less Risky Path to Entrepreneurship in Software Development
Original EnglishI started building for the web at 13, had a freelance business for 5years, paid for college by building fundraising videos for another 4, did …
Why HTML is a strategic dead end for business transactions and e-commerce (1999)
Original EnglishWe started out by looking at a number of window systems and clients of window systems, and came up with a set of goals.