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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.
Solve a problem people will pay for before expanding the team.
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Tell HN: I have the perfect job, why is it not enough?
Original EnglishAnecdote: As I deployed to Afghanistan from my duty station on Okinawa things got progressively shitty.
Ask HN: What's left for early startup engineers as the company grows?
Original Englishwe've been profitable for nearly a decade, a SaaS service since 2002, and we do about 100k/mo in revenue.
How to Run DeepSeek R1 671B Locally on a $2000 EPYC Server
Original EnglishBy the time it needs to be replaced which is from 5-7 years on the stuff I just got pricing on it would have 100% …
Tell HN: How we bootstrapped to the #1 rated mattress on Amazon.com
Original EnglishFor a futon like you linked, they're using a low oz woven twill that costs less than $2 a yard typically totalling about $8 for …
I won free load testing
Original EnglishWe built a tool for deploying static websites to Cloudflare [1].
Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage
Original EnglishBTW for my remote backups I do encrypt them but this is a choice the author of Borg left open.
Business automation: request dependencies are the hard part
API Parrot’s maker turned recurring request-correlation work into a visual flow and code-export tool.
Look for repeated investigative work, not just more endpoints.
The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud
Original EnglishTurns out, the flow was only tested in portrait mode but my dad wants landscape mode easier for typing and so we never tried portrait.
John Carmack on Inlined Code
Original EnglishThis is partly because introducing a bug rarely breaks only one test.