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Launch HN: Unthread (YC S22) – Customer support, entirely within Slack
Original EnglishWe started building Unthread to manage our own customers’ requests inside of Slack.
Show HN: Floro – Visual Version Control
Original EnglishThe reason it's happening on the landing page is because we use floro for editing the site and testing our changes offline first before pushing.
Ask HN: Any advice for switching from self-employment back to employee?
Original Englishthe other side, we used them to locate consultants while I was working at a previous employer, but I imagine with 15 years experience you …
Show HN: An opinionated and statically-typed TypeScript SDK generator
Original EnglishIt's not perfect, but we've used this to help run our own unit tests (and have a few customers trying it out too)!
Ask HN: Would a .Net back-end put off potential acquisitors?
Original EnglishMono is about 25 to 50% slower on computational stuff, which is negligible in almost any business application that has a multi-server topology.
Ruby, PHP, MySQL, Perl, Free Hosting for geeks
Original EnglishBoth of those are commercial offerings with a free tier, but their commercial pricing makes me a lot more confident that it will stick around.
To Understand the Benefits of Tax Reform, Start by Understanding Apple's Taxes
Original EnglishBut that’s no free ride, those employees need to increase sales to cover their costs or the money is wasted.
Sigh, this is what browsing the web in the EU looks like nowadays (2021)
Original EnglishLooked great, much more readable, but we started losing sales.
Ask HN: Why did consumer 3D printing take so long to be invented?
Original EnglishAs I recall, 3D printers rose to prominence at about the same time and speed as we started getting genuinely powerful personal computers.