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.

Field notes

App.net Gets First Dedicated iOS App, Passes 17,500 Users

Original English

The $50, I have to believe, is "Startup Capital" to get Dalton running with a bit of infrastructure, cover his salary for a year, and …

Business ideas

Ask HN: Solo startups? What have you built all on your own?

Original English

I've run into many limitations that have prevented me from offering products, service plans and sales strategies that would've been profitable but required more employees.

Business ideas

User-Generated Pricing

Original English

Instead of running A/B tests and or different sales I'm trying to speed up the process and see how it pans out.

Business ideas

Ask HN: How much runway did you have when you started your startup?

Original English

But we made a good profit even after paying off debts.

Business ideas

I lost $209,640 of my own money trying to start a business

Original English

I charged him half for 2 months of work and got the website in front of paying customers.

Field notes

Show HN: Composo – Evaluating and improving performance of LLM applications

Original English

We’re been building Composo - a platform that helps teams achieve high performance, guarantee accuracy & minimise the cost of LLM applications.

Tool picks

Ask HN: What does your company do to reduce cloud cost?

Original English

We've discovered that our backend is very sensitive to missing cache and that Elasticache is expensive but very reliable.

Hard lessons

Ask HN: What have we lost in tech and society?

Original English

We lost hardware that failed often enough you'd learn how to fix it. -- Yay!

Tool picks

Rust – Faster compilation with the parallel front-end in nightly

Original English

In fact, in my experience, Rust has faster time to delivery than any other language I've used.

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