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Ask HN: What to do with 3K visitors a month?
Original EnglishThe site costs peanuts to run so I'm happy to serve the 35 million API calls for free and fund the project 100% via adsense.
Fit your product to the right market
Original EnglishIt paid off - I had a paying customer after 4 days.
Google finally responds to Europe's antitrust charges
Original EnglishBut I don't see how paid ads are an example of using dominance to support their business though; paid ads are just a market that …
What VCs look for in startup pitches
Original EnglishTo take this to $1 million a year we need a) a customer acquisition specialist, b) two engineers to firm up the feature set, and …
CTO / cofounder exit deal after 1.5y at 600k revenue without SHA
Original EnglishWe don’t have significant IP yet because I spent most of my time writing proposals that generated revenue and developing prototypes for sectors that ultimately …
Ask HN: sideproject, generating revenue & profit what's next?
Original EnglishI realize 15 is not a lot, but total time I spent on those sales was maybe 10 minutes and $0 each.
Ask HN: How should organize and back up 23 TiB of personal files?
Original EnglishI am just a big fan of how low-maintenance my unRAID setup is compared to when I used to do it all manually.
Ask HN: How would you invest $50,000?
Original English(But then, OP only is spending $50K, and, uh, by the time the project was able to support me, that was maybe 4-5 months of …
Show HN: Database Labs – Postgres as a Service
Original EnglishBeyond that, while I like Heroku's simplicity and tooling, Heroku is frankly insanely expensive for what you get at all but the lowest pricing tiers.