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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: In 2024 what's the best way to manage contacts?
Original EnglishIn the end, I use a completely self-made setup.
Email Newsletters Are Serious Business
Original EnglishStarted writing my team's weekly business email about 12 months ago - it adds value to my clients, and both potential and alumni clients get …
On the web server scalability and speed are almost the same thing
Original EnglishPHP sucks, but there are a ton of profitable companies that use it because it is wicked wicked fast.
Show HN: Google Blade – discover, create, and share custom search engines
Original EnglishI've spent most of the last 10 years doing some variation of SEO or Affiliate marketing, always happy to try new methods regardless of how …
Uber's Still Not Profitable
Original EnglishWay too many things are priced below production cost like e.g. the web browsers we're using to have this conversation.
Why is Linux more popular than BSD?
Original Englishthis hot new Perl language rather than trying to compile it. …
Show HN: Offline sketch to image geneartor in a whiteboard
Original EnglishWe need a more lightweight solution, so I used xmlrpc for memory efficiency, although there might be better alternatives that I'm unaware of.
My Experience as a Single Founder
Original Englishthe profit is $0.50 which is more of a counter in how many magazines I've sold. …
Launch HN: Castled Data (YC W22) – Open-Source Reverse ETL
Original EnglishManish and I were founding engineers at Hevodata, an ETL company, when it went from 5 customers to around 300 customers.