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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: How do I sell my expensive niche software w/ no sales background?
Original EnglishI've been paid 10-20k dollars on 3 separate occasions to develop a web application for this niche, I have another customer who will be paying …
Ask HN: Review my startup - Lean Designs Website Builder
Original EnglishI also run a service that gets 100% of its business as a result of people converting from free trials to paid users, and the …
Whoa... Groupon Generated $760M in Revenue in 2010
Original EnglishBut to my mind, these factors indicate Groupon should likely call the $760M revenue figure gross, not net.
Ask HN: How to get out of making CRUD apps?
Original EnglishI’ve tried startups - but majority of them, until a pretty late stage are mostly smoke & mirrors, where you do everything to acquire customers …
Goodbye, section 2.8 and hello to Cloudflare’s new terms of service
Original EnglishAnd I'm sure that at 200TB/mo, I wouldn't be paying Fastly's list price, but at least I have an upper bound on the pricing.
Fastest self-hostable open-source workflow engine
Original EnglishFor the last six years, I've run a business that does around $5M of annual revenue using this approach, with 4 FTE people (including me).
Big Companies vs. Startups (2015)
Original EnglishOnce we migrated to .Net Core and could run it on Linux, we did so because .Net on Linux is faster and free.
Facebook Sells Your Friends
Original EnglishI'd pay $10/month for a facebook that cares about me as a customer.
Ask HN: you want HOW much for the design?
Original EnglishIn discussing his business, I found out he spends 3 hours a week maintaining 1,000 items of produce.