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

Their experience.
Your next move.✳

Discover hard-earned lessons, useful tools, and business ideas
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Real experiences, useful perspectives, and things you wish you’d known.

Tool picks

Why doesn't Stripe use Stripe Billing?

Original English

I use Stripe Billing now, but could integrate with Lago once and easily switch between payment processors.

Tool picks

Show HN: Open-sourced Webflow for your own app

Original English

Sure, and this would have saved me some time in the various complex web apps I've made.

Business ideas

Mac App Store: The Subtle Exodus

Original English

(I've sold 10k copies of my first software product.

Business ideas

Ask HN: I'm lost. Please help

Original English

I spent 6 years co-founding a startup (though because of my age I was never recognised as a founder).

Business ideas

Release of IPython 5.0

Original English

I personally charge my clients with a flat monthly maintenance fee which includes upgrades, but also minor bug fixes.

Hard lessons

Why and how we’re migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs

Original English

I use it on my personal file server, but it really simple setup with UPS.

Business ideas

Ask HN: Anyone making a living building desktop applications?

Original English

Revenue in last 30 days is $3000+, we started working on it back in July.

Tool picks

7 watts idle – building a low powered server/NAS on Intel 12th/13th gen

Original English

I'm running TrueNas as a second backup server but it no way compares to DSM.

Hard lessons

Asking your customers what they want doesn't work

Original English

For the last 5 or so years, I'm building mobile POC/MVP apps for my clients.

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