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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: What are the signs a piece of technology will become commoditized?
Original EnglishA lot of it was about getting clean data, but there was a lot of model tweaking/testing/maintenance as well.
Ask HN: I got duped into working on legacy code, should I leave?
Original EnglishAnyways, I ended up getting another job and this one too -- I worked on a "cold client base" that was at least 2 years …
Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify
Original EnglishNow I use a payment provider (bank) instead and it costs nothing except the payment processor fee I already had to pay.
AI Doesn't Kill Jobs? Tell That to Freelancers
Original EnglishI know for a fact profit margins have increased however.
I got everything off the cloud and am paying less
Original EnglishEvery place is different; you have to do a cost analysis and it's not as simple as "I saved 10x!"
Modern software is at its worst
Original Englishwe had made use of multipart-http, as in HTTP1.1, but, yes, there was this MS bug regarding http chunks -- however, we may get now …
A few adjustments to App Engine’s upcoming pricing changes
Original Englishbut every time I started using it I always had that nagging feeling that at some point the other shoe would drop (higher pricing, service …
WaMu Fails. First major comercial bank to go.
Original English(1) it's none of our business whether a private citizen is earning $10 or $10,000,000;
Start a business, not a startup
Original EnglishJust because you fail doesn't mean that the rest of the world has failed.