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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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The tragedy of 100% code coverage (2016)
Original EnglishOver the past 15 years, unit testing has failed to produce anything positive, and test driven development has been an absolute disaster.
An administrator accidentally deleted the production database
Original EnglishI also worked at a company that specializes in disaster recovery, but our global email went down after a power outage.
The world needs a non-profit search engine
Original EnglishI built a fairly popular search engine a couple years back, but the cost of Google's search API and increasing number of bot attacks make …
Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?
Original EnglishThis is a product that will live on for at least another 10 years and will likely overtake our core product in revenue.
Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund
Original Englishthe same thing, but focus on talented people, do a good job of it, and make a nice profit. …
Reverse engineering Call of Duty anti-cheat
Original EnglishThe company made roughly 40% of sales from cheater whales (one can imagine how much the chest makers made), and there were guidelines on repeated …
Turning FFmpeg into approachable desktop tools
A developer turned a personal video-cropping need into a desktop media toolkit and reported paying customers.
Making established technology approachable can be a product opportunity.
Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
Original EnglishI have no idea how she did this, but it means she keeps running out of space because the backup process now backs up the …
I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen
Original EnglishI started using it in 2010 I think after cross-testing the field of options available.