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

Their experience.
Your next move.✳

Discover hard-earned lessons, useful tools, and business ideas
hidden in the conversations on Hacker News.

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Real experiences, useful perspectives, and things you wish you’d known.

Business ideas

I sold TinyPilot, my first successful business

Original English

I started the sales process, that basically became non-viable because it meant I'd be investing thousands in software development, but it wouldn't pay off for …

Business ideas

We are destroying software

Original English

I keep hearing how 10x engineers make their companies millions upon millions but they only get paid a fraction of that.

Hard lessons

IndieHackers.com acquired by Stripe

Original English

Later the customer opened disputes for every payment made within 3 months.

Tool picks

Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce

Original English

As one of the earliest stripe customers, yes, that was the reason why we switched to them from Authorize.net.

Tool picks

When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing code

Original English

Maybe it's different for other people but I constantly run into bugs/missing features in tools I use for both job and personal stuff.

Tool picks

Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

Original English

Xmas 2022 came and I used my free time to add (a ton of) extra features, and a paid mode to access them.

Business ideas

Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative

Original English

I don't get paid for that service, but you do.

Business ideas

What's happening inside the NIH and NSF

Original English

I decided against the move for other reasons but financial complexity paid it's part.

Tool picks

A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to $1750 per month

Original English

I use Linode for all of my hosting, and I can get tech support on the phone in less than 5 minutes even without the …

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