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

Their experience.
Your next move.✳

Discover hard-earned lessons, useful tools, and business ideas
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Real experiences, useful perspectives, and things you wish you’d known.

Hard lessons

Ask HN: What interesting software did you work on in the past?

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I worked for ~3 years at a startup that built chemistry and geology software.

Business ideas

Bootstrapped. 10 Months. Learned Rails. Finally Launched. Feedback Please?

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the future - but I need to get the core problem solve and get some real customer feedback from paying customers. …

Tool picks

Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?

Original English

I found this post because it showed up in a TUI Microsub[0] client that talks to a Microsub server[1] which is subscribed to one of …

Field notes

What we have learnt running a bootstrapped startup

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I decided to ask for $30 from new clients.

Business ideas

How to negotiate the long, slow, SaaS ramp of death [video]

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We have been running a SaaS product for SMBs for about 4 years now.

Hard lessons

At 38, am I too old for a startup?

Original English

The second one (indiebuyer.net) made some revenue but ultimately ran out of money and folded.

Business ideas

Ask HN: Mindfulness for Hackers

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our main living from the schools program, but at this point it's purely a service project and the charges are mostly to offset costs. …

Field notes

Ask HN: What Happened to Pinboard?

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For the last 4 months, my paid archiving account has almost completely stopped archiving bookmarks.

Business ideas

Ask HN: Steal my Ideas (or help me)

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I like this product because the software is directly responsible for revenue (or making stuff golf courses want).

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