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Ask PG: Correlation between frugality and startup success?
Original EnglishI just paid Google $500 yesterday to handle search on our site, because it is a problem that has effected me on a couple of …
Ask HN: Do quality web graphics, design and layout actually help businesses?
Original EnglishI hired someone off of rent-a-coder for less than $100, and within a week of installing the new theme my pageviews increased about 20% overnight, …
Ask HN: How do you deal with recurring payments?
Original English* The platform offers a lot of billing schemes out of the box, but you can extend the logic (via plugins)
Ask HN: Do you think career and family is either-or?
Original EnglishIt's gone well for me, but there were scary parts...it increased the personal stress a lot in times like when my start-up/s failed.
It’s painful to do a tech startup in London
Original EnglishIt's painful to do a tech startup anywhere but in my experience, what London suffers the most from is the cost of living.
Apple’s Insurmountable Platform Advantage
Original EnglishI built the equivalent of a $4000-6000 Mac Pro for less than half the cost; OSX also has very poor multi-monitor support, which I need, …
Please Rate My Startup - LoyaltySpace.com
Original EnglishLooking at the pricing, my first thought is "Wow, that's cheap!" I don't know how that converts to US dollars, but it seems way low.
Why aren't we all serverless yet?
Original EnglishI find it rather difficult to figure out what my operation costs are going to be; I usually learn later through perusing the monthly bills. …
Google App Engine turns 2
Original EnglishI really love GAE as a development platform, especially as a single developer, but I hope they will work through their roadmap faster.