FROM BUILDERS, FOR DOERSVOL. 03 / QUALITY-FIRST DISCOVERY

Their experience.
Your next move.✳

Discover hard-earned lessons, useful tools, and business ideas
hidden in the conversations on Hacker News.

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Real experiences, useful perspectives, and things you wish you’d known.

Field notes

Oidbs: An Open Source MQTT Driven Benchmark Suite for IoT Data

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I have tested (and read) several open-source MQTT clients and brokers.

Business ideas

Mailchimp's pricing

Original English

I used my consulting gig to build a nest-egg that I invested in my own startup, which will hit $1.2MM in revenue this year.

Business ideas

Ask HN: Pull the curtain back on Nvidia's CES keynote please

Original English

I've spent 15 years building a career in robotics/software engineering along the "traditional path": writing software to solve problems, mastering fundamentals, and architecting complex systems.

Business ideas

Ask HN: what are your best (relatively) passive, non-stock-market investments?

Original English

i spent about £6k to buy it, i spent a further £2k buying a van and other one off supplies and my monthly profit after …

Hard lessons

Rust Editors to Replace TextMate 2 – The Agony of Despair

Original English

But after Ogden failed to update TextMate for 4–5 years, I decided it was time to move on.

Tool picks

Show HN: FreeDemandLetter – A Weapon for Anyone Who's Sick of Getting Shafted

Original English

No grand monetization plan, no hidden fees—just a way to level the playing field without paying a lawyer $400/hr to type three paragraphs.

Business ideas

How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k. Meet Tipsandtrip.

Original English

And, more importantly, this process is accelerating, because we're using the money earned/saved to pay a freelancer to help us develop our 2nd SaaS product, …

Business ideas

Too little to offer for bootstrapped start-up?

Original English

First because my Dad was an excellent cook so I grew up thinking a man's place WAS in the kitchen.

Business ideas

Ask HN: Is Perl dead?

Original English

But For Cats!" startup idea is a lot faster in Rails or Django.

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