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.
My popular Twitter Analytics app has reached technical limits. Need help
Original EnglishI had modest revenue but I can't say my pricing scheme was perfect.
Surgical Programming
Original EnglishFor example, I tried this with a large Python application and I have utterly failed and had to tell my client I can't help them.
A decent VS Code and Ruby on Rails setup
Original EnglishBut because our deployment pipelines are in fact fascists, it’s very helpful to have those “global” settings at times.
Rekindling (on my experience with burnout)
Original EnglishI would love to subcontract the development but I'm afraid that it will take more of my time to get started and the cost/quality won't …
Pocket Lists sales: $13500 in first 3 months
Original EnglishI'm currently living and working in Vietnam so at the moment I'm charging my clients a lot less than the $150+/hr a good iOS dev …
Ask HN: What are some Bay Area startups that don't use an open office plan?
Original EnglishEven shared offices (2 people to an office) were far better -- still much easier to avoid distractions because you don't get cafeteria-style escalation of …
Ask HN: Do you charge your webdesign clients for ongoing hosting and support?
Original EnglishWe lost 1/3 of the customers, but I think we only needed 3 clients to equal the revenue of the previous system.
Ask HN: How to Overcome the Trough of Sorrow?
Original EnglishI had another service I tried to sell that would have been an enormous value add for business clients.
Ask HN: Should I remind users that their card is about to be charged?
Original EnglishI made the mistake of simply changing the signup form / billing code without making heavy modifications to the marketing site and onboarding flow, which …