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

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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.

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Solve a problem people will pay for before expanding the team.

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Hard lessons

Apple’s refusal to support Progressive Web Apps is a detriment to the web

Original English

I needed a feature that PWA's can give me - but Apple hasn't added support for them in mobile safari, so I paid the $100 …

Y3704432017-07
Hard lessons

Ask HN: What's your top growth strategy that helped grow your startup?

Original English

We spent 12 months trying to use smart people with no experience and sales people that were great at selling into different markets and generated …

Y3691582017-02
Business ideas

Updates to Google Cloud’s infrastructure capabilities and pricing

Original English

We use Gsuite and a very minimal GC setup so from a financial perspective it doesn't really matter all that much.

Y3692802022-03
Tool picks

Downloading Software Safely Is Nearly Impossible

Original English

We paid $397 for a two-year code signing cert with DigiCert.

Y3682602014-03
Business ideas

Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?

Original English

There's never been a break-through moment as revenue has grown at an average rate of about 3.5% per month since we launched.

Y3673062011-05
Hard lessons

Startup Graveyard – History Shouldn't Have to Repeat Itself

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I had a role that straddled Eng & QA, and the lesson I took away from it was "engineering quality is critically important; we failed …

Y3671042017-05
Tool picks

We will never have enough software developers (2020)

Original English

I tried to use AppAuth OIDC client, has a few questions, asked, the response was "We assume some prior Java and Android knowledge".

Y3665402022-06
Field notes

Introducing Google Cloud Storage Nearline

Original English

slightly off topic here, but when i tried to setup an account, which should get me $300 free, it auto selects my country (Ireland) and …

Y3661782015-03
Business ideas

Programmer Interrupted

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By redirecting inwards-bound interruptions to myself, I've probably reduced developer interruptions by 80% since I started.

Y366872013-01

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