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Why Startups Fail
Original EnglishI've worked for three well-funded startups that failed for another reason, though all of them ended up making the same mistake: they couldn't develop software.
Show HN: A Sales Tracking App Built For Freelancers and Small Businesses
Original EnglishFor example, it would be nice to pull all the deals we lost from customer XYZ between $5k and $10k and compare that number to …
Ask HN: Is anyone else bearish on OpenAI?
Original EnglishIt's a hacky solution, but significantly faster than reimplementing my streamlit dashboard in another framework or rewriting my infra without async-await.
CGI programs have an attractive one step deployment model
Original EnglishI don't recall CGI being sensitive to web server, version, or configuration, in practice. CGI should interface the same today as 30 years ago.
A Fast, Simple, Queue Built on MongoDB
Original EnglishThe idea that your application code probably sucks and/or is in a constant state of flux, so handle failure gracefully is rather excellent.
Ask HN: What are you working on right now and why is it cool?
Original EnglishThese people did not keep tenants for profit but for company and maintenance of their properties ("better than it being empty and gathering dust") so …
Alternative to Paypal "Buy buttons" for European-based companies?
Original EnglishOne of our customers had paid someone else via paypal, and that other person turned out to be a scammer.
Startups should run on cloud providers
Original EnglishThere are tools like Terraform that are suppose to make this easier, but often I ended up fighting it so much I started writing my …
Using Amazon EC2 to Thwart Crappy Internal IT Services
Original EnglishWe almost failed a PCI audit because of his stunt.