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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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Twitter jilts Ruby for Scala
Original Englishbecause groovy has plenty of faults: the complete lack of any static type checking at compile time and very poor IDE support and error reporting …
Show HN: Oodle – serverless, fully-managed, drop-in replacement for Prometheus
Original EnglishOur metrics bills grew like 20x over 4 years.
Ask HN: Where are the part-time remote coding jobs?
Original EnglishI work full time for a big company, but also have a software-heavy side business which used to make thousands a month in revenue.
Ask HN: How do I turn 100K into 1 million?
Original EnglishI also sold trading software full-time for a year, on a 30% commission.
Ask HN: Current freelancer and consulting rates survey
Original EnglishI billed monthly, and the client was expected to pay within 10 days.
Ask HN: Have you had trouble getting a job after a failed startup?
Original EnglishIn this 2 years, I learned a lot about startup management and growth, but on the other hand, my technical skills stuck in time.
Show HN: SaveSlack – create searchable knowledgebase from your Slack community
Original EnglishWe charge a higher price for premium account because we are 2 full time engineers working on this and want to hit profitability so we …
Ask HN: Enough profit to replace a day job?
Original EnglishThe site only had a few hundred visitors a month, however about 10% of those converted and became subscribers.
I launched an iPhone app yesterday, and all I got were some stupid lessons
Original EnglishI just want to pay $20 for an app that does all this instead of building it and getting distracted from my core business.