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

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Business ideas

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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paraschopra·2025-01-242246 points
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Solve a problem people will pay for before expanding the team.

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Field notes

A horrifying startup accelerator story

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but I have to say, in the three years I've been working on my startup, never once has anything good happened from paying for access …

Y3301322013-08
Tool picks

Text Editor Performance Comparison

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People tell me how I'm wrong because my editor shouldn't use so much memory, I try to tell them that I'm more than happy with …

Y3302472017-03
Business ideas

Engineers suck at finding the right jobs

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I spent five years working on a non-profit web site that was used by more than 80k people a day.

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Tool picks

Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2016 Edition

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I use Atheros ar9462 Wifi cards everywhere because they have great bluetooth + wifi that are stable as hell out of the box without configuration) …

Y3293712015-12
Hard lessons

You Are Not Paid to Write Code

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And I wouldn't have been paid any more if the project had instead resulted in an extra $12 million in revenue.

Y3281672016-11
Business ideas

Show HN: Sourcetrail – Get productive on unfamiliar source code

Original English

So this tool (at the $100 self employment pricing) is a nice fit for a tool I'm on the fence about.

Y3281172017-06
Hard lessons

Microsoft launches Office for iPad

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I stopped using VMWare Fusion, for example, because they got into the habit of releasing paid upgrade versions that were required in order to run …

Y3282732014-03
Tool picks

GitLab, open source github clone, reaches 3.0

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It's rather lightweight and is easy to setup on a low end VPS.

Y3281002012-10
Hard lessons

Launch HN: Skyvern (YC S23) – open-source AI agent for browser automations

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I made a LinkedIn post about it yesterday, but the funniest has been our customer DoSing our service by accident (sending 10K tasks per hour …

Y327742024-10

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