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.

Ideas worth your time3000

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

Hard lessons

Why does everyone run ancient Postgres versions?

Original English

In retrospect I wish we'd used SQLite, whose backwards-compatibility guarantee has now reached twenty years.

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Tool picks

Atlantic.net launches $0.99 SSD-based VPS servers

Original English

Within 15 minutes, they fixed my GRUB configuration and had my server back up.

Y2651952014-10
Hard lessons

Try Out Rust IDE Support in Visual Studio Code

Original English

This setup allows me to use AWS snapshots to have the disk backed up (crash consistently) once a day (but it could be once an …

Y265822017-08
Field notes

Vim and tmux: separate editing from session management

A longtime Vim user describes separating editing, a REPL, and multiple project windows after adopting tmux.

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Split the workflow when one tool is carrying too many responsibilities.

#Developer tools#Productivity#Workflow
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Tool picks

Ask HN: Is it still possible to live in a terminal?

Original English

All of the native apps I use work faster than I do, I don't think they slow me down.

Y2642532022-10
Business ideas

For software developers: how to find a job with relocation to Europe

Original English

We pay €400/month because we're in the highest income bracket, but even that is being phased out next year (and up to now was only …

Y2632212016-11
Business ideas

The Mother of All Interview Questions

Original English

We knew the maximum long term revenue because of the capacity we had in mind.

Y2631282011-08
Hard lessons

Storage for Photographers

Original English

An inexpensive (<$25) option of "only backup current projects I'm working on and anything I shot in the last month", that actually works...

Y2631822013-07
Tool picks

We won the battle for Linux, but we're losing the battle for freedom (2016)

Original English

I'm not troubled by the music being locked in, because what I'm paying for is access to that library.

Y2632542022-06

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