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

Their experience.
Your next move.✳

Discover hard-earned lessons, useful tools, and business ideas
hidden in the conversations on Hacker News.

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Real experiences, useful perspectives, and things you wish you’d known.

Business ideas

How Running A Business Changes The Way You Think

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We've grown swiftly over the last 5 years, and have gone from clients with turnovers ~£100k to clients with turnovers ~£30M.

Hard lessons

Ask HN: How do I start my own consulting firm?

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I lost a big whale which took out a HUGE chunk of revenue, but we were pretty diversified.

Hard lessons

Show HN: Hire an Oldster

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I started my career coding on shitty MS Dos system where if you had 640K of memory, it was a high-end machine.

Tool picks

The Developer's Dystopian Future

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Interesting you should ask for more verification of my claim to fewer bugs because I'm about to embark on using Haskell in the new startup …

Business ideas

I made $200K and PayPal locked my account

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we pay sales tax and income tax and don't get to vote or a path to citizenship in less then 20 years. …

Field notes

Ask HN: Has anyone managed to find enjoyment in their work after burnout?

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Once I started doing that, my productivity increased drastically even tho I started working fewer hours.

Hard lessons

The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain

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I later learned that a good shop will do them for about $40 in labor over the cost of parts at a retail auto-parts store …

Business ideas

The Rise and Fall of the Lone Game Developer

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the $2 on my game before I switched to a "fremium" model (where the ratings ended up higher, but the income lower). …

Hard lessons

Google nabs Apple as a cloud customer

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I'm using six Hetzner servers for over 1.5 years now and the only problem I had was one disk failure - support needed 10 minutes …

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