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

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Business ideas

Google Killing Off Buzz and Code Search

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Call it what you will, but a lot of people seem to disagree with per-repository pricing for small low-usage repositories, just because they are private.

Hard lessons

Want to found a startup? Work at one first

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But I'm biased, as I started my first startup at 16 and failed, and proceeded to re-try at 18, and succeeded.

Field notes

YC S12 company refuses to pay for my design. "Send your claim to our legal team"

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we do just fine with our calibre of clients and we send them invoices for a lot more than $1,000. …

Tool picks

Ask HN: Have You Left Kubernetes?

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The CTO and I liked the setup so much, we started converting another large client of theirs.

Business ideas

How I’m Making Five-Figures A Month Off Bootstrapped Products

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Instead of getting others involved I started another business to earn money which I sold profitably after 10 years but it was no way as …

Business ideas

I quit my job to make free web tools

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I've recently launched an API for NsLookup, which now generates around 100 USD / month, and both sites have ads that generate income.

Hard lessons

How I came to find Linux

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And for the software that no one but I use, creating my own package was so incredibly trivial that it was almost easier than manually …

Tool picks

How I Program in 2024

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I started testing everything- it wasn’t easy to adopt my code to be testable, took effort, but then I learned how to make code pure, …

Hard lessons

San Francisco Is Requiring Solar Panels on All New Buildings

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As I've stated previously this is not a market failure because this example depends on the idea of the commons.

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