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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.
Solve a problem people will pay for before expanding the team.
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Expectations: Follow up to "I'm building a better TechCrunch"
Original EnglishThe next month, we increased the price to 10k and they sold out again, with some companies buying 3 months worth.
Runbook – DevOps, automated
Original EnglishSecond, when evaluating pricing, it's useful to ask "what serious customer would pay $5/mo but not $15 or $25 if we are providing real value …
Spotify loses $59.1 million on $244.5 million in revenue
Original EnglishI paid for Spotify for a few months, and thought it was nice, but I much prefer buying iTunes/Amazon music and syncing it to all …
Taking e-mail back, part 4: The finale, with webmail and everything after
Original EnglishMost of the instant messaging clients over the last 20 years have given up enormous value that email brings.
It Doesn't Have To Be All Or Nothing With A Startup
Original Englishthe fog on my own software so that I don't need as much time?" That change in framing has really saved me a lot of …
Ask HN: We've all been there, what was your big stuff up?
Original EnglishI deployed the app to the Staging env by mistake (and unexpectedly restarted the app server).
Show HN: Infracost (YC W21): Cloud Costs for Terraform in VSCode
Original EnglishWhen I started looking at cloud pricing in 2009 there were ~10K price points, today there are more than 3M.
Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs?
Original EnglishI built a native all-in-one AI client called BoltAI[0]
Starting a business isn't as crazy and risky as they say
Original EnglishI'd rather make $50k at a startup I built with my own hands than $100,000/yr working in a gray cube "slinging code" for some corporation...