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

Developer open-sources 200+ hr project after client refuses to pay

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However, there has been one single thing which has kept our revenue flowing month after month for years: Freshbooks.com

Hard lessons

So very sad to hear about the passing of Ruby legend Jim Weirich

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There was a lot of hype about the best new testing methods with RSpec and this new thing called Cucumber, 100% paired programming all the …

Business ideas

Tesla Model S: the story of a very short happiness and excitement

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I was in the waiting room of another Toyota dealership and the service writer told a woman that her scheduled service would cost $500.00 because …

Business ideas

Ruby Shield: Shopify donates $1M to stewards of rubygems, bundler

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I've started responding to "hey, do you want to talk to sales?" messages with "sure", just to see what stuff costs in the real world.

Tool picks

Ask HN: So you moved off Heroku, where did you go?

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Cost wise, I am down from about $24 to $8 with a much better performance.

Field notes

Lessons from my first exit

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we tried to use DDP, which is supposed to let us pay the tariff on the customer's behalf, but we tried it a few times …

Tool picks

Ask HN: Have we screwed ourselves as software engineers?

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The prototype in a standard MVC stack I'd made to demo to the client took 2 days.

Business ideas

Apple, Microsoft, and Google hold 23% of all U.S. corporate cash

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I pay regular income tax of 46% (top federal, Medicare, and typical state rates combined) and keep $54.

Business ideas

Stripe And A/B Testing Made Me A Small Fortune

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The per-transaction fees are lower, but there is a monthly (or yearly) cost.

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