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Show HN: BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, now open-source
Original EnglishSun Microsystems would just not accept that, no matter how much I tried to explain and reason with people there: "talk to the pricing committee".
The satellite imagery industry still has no idea what customers want
Original EnglishWhen I was an agronomist I used satellite imagery a lot for monitoring farm crops for our customers.
YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups
Original EnglishWe had open salary bands so we were all paid OK - especially our couple ~entry level folks at $100-120k.
Ask HN: Should I create a clone of a popular SaaS with rock-bottom pricing?
Original EnglishYes you can attract more customers by launching with rock-bottom pricing, but you better make damn sure it's a better overall product.
Ask HN: How do you find clients when you have no network and can only do remote?
Original EnglishI've spent out like 30 custom proposals (that's around 15-20 hours of time wasted) and never heard back from any client, except for maybe one, …
A solution for enabling UDP in the web
Original EnglishI am using electron-webrtc to run it under nodejs, which probably means about a gigabyte of overhead in total, but given the AWC EC2 pricing …
Show HN: Barnacl.es, a community news site for never-funded bootstrappers
Original EnglishWe bootstrapped 4 years ago and after a year we had enough revenue to pay ourselves a small paycheck.
Why we ditched PayPal for Stripe
Original EnglishAnyway, disclaimer: we run between 50K and 100K a month through Paypal, so that is probably why we get fantastic support from them and better …
Blue Ocean: a new user experience for Jenkins
Original Englishthe Jenkins weather indicators work, but the last time I used Jenkins, the weather indicators were based on the number of failed builds, not the …