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

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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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paraschopra·2025-01-242246 points
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Solve a problem people will pay for before expanding the team.

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Field notes

Ask HN: Do bootstrapped businesses lose much money on free trials?

Original English

So that's 4400 to get 25 customers or 176 USD per customer (much closer to 200

Y44302014-08
Hard lessons

Looking into the eyes of failure

Original English

Many of the people around me would laugh when I said I'd failed, because they were judging it by how far I'd come and the …

Y44242016-05
Tool picks

Ask HN: Best way to sell a small web app?

Original English

The site is now being used by about 700 blogs, only about 20 of them are paying $10/month which covers hosting costs but isn't much …

Y44332010-09
Tool picks

My experience with exporting Postgres RDS partitioned tables to S3

Original English

I used as an example, we started making progress, we even got a patched version of PostgreSQL RDS deployed, but once the bug was identified, …

Y44202022-05
Business ideas

Show HN: MadBlocker — iOS 8 Ad and Tracking Script Blocker

Original English

My site doesn't break even at all from ads, but they help offset the running cost (revenue is in the single-digit dollars-per-month range).

Y44492015-08
Field notes

Ask HN: Do you have any startup related regrets? Epic failures?

Original English

BUT even the worst decisions I've made HAVE paid off in some way.

Y44452010-08
Hard lessons

The Failure of a Past Basic Income Guarantee, the Speenhamland System

Original English

Because I understood failure and struggle so well I have always gone out of my way to help those struggling.

Y44792015-01
Business ideas

Ask HN: What makes you happy? What is your American Dream?

Original English

I make less than $60k/year and live quite comfortably on it, even paying $600-$1,000/mo.

Y44702010-03
Business ideas

Cloudcraft Pro

Original English

We pay $40 per team member for a shared email inbox (also known as help desk software :), because it helps us coordinate who is …

Y44322016-04

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