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.

Business ideas

Ask HN: As a freelancer, how do you ensure clients pay?

Original English

This kinda goes against the trend of selling yourself as providing value and not merely your time, but you can also ask to be pre-paid …

Tool picks

Ask HN: Choosing between Microsoft and everything else

Original English

I prefer my experience with Microsoft, but its costs and vendor lock-in are hard to ignore.

Business ideas

Ask HN: Your predictions for 2012?

Original English

It doesn't need the 1% to succeed and they launch as Open Corp and new selfless framework in which 20-80% of net profits are invested …

Business ideas

Magento is dead – Merchants want a suite of marketing tools, not refactored code

Original English

I have been using Magento Enterprise Edition (EE) for 6months on a production sites in Europe and US, with total revenue so far exceeds a …

Business ideas

Ask HN: When did you feel to resign/leave your last job?

Original English

My coworker and I worked super hard for 6 months to develop a feature that was new and innovative to the consulting company I was …

Hard lessons

Ask HN: Is a phD a good way to focus & motivate you?

Original English

Started a (failed) project with someone, the pressure of having someone else relying on me was great (not that it is the reason it failed, …

Hard lessons

Ask HN: Developing a recurring payments system, what do I need to consider?

Original English

i did the recurring billing manually rather than using braintree's automated billing.

Tool picks

Show HN: A collection of useful items for building SteamVR titles in Unity 5

Original English

Today, it still probably stands as the best choice, but Lumberyard, though riddled with bugs, is moving quickly in the right direction.

Business ideas

Multi-Piece Shipment Support Available in the Shippo API

Original English

our net cost because the boxes are provided to us for free and b) get there 2-3 days faster for a buck more versus UPS …

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