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.

Tool picks

Show HN: Open-Sourcing InboxSDK (YC S11) – Build Apps in Gmail

Original English

We spent an ungodly amount of time maintaining compatibility with other Gmail extensions.

Business ideas

Ask HN: Do we need to pay billions in fees to Stripe, Block, PayPal and Visa/MC?

Original English

On the one hand, I'd rather not pay them 3% of my sales.

Field notes

How to get your first 10 customers

Original English

I used to contact potential clients years ago and then GoDaddy marked my domain as spam and made me cough up $199. …

Tool picks

Htmx and Web Components: A Perfect Match

Original English

Every org I've worked at since the last Rails project I worked on around 2014 has built JavaScript heavy thick clients on top of API's.

Business ideas

How to become a freelance web developer

Original English

The most I've been ripped off for is £300, but I've some freelancing friends who are owned thousands of Pounds by various clients.

Tool picks

Pragtical: Practical and pragmatic code editor

Original English

But, I've said before and I'll say again that entering text into files isn't usually the limiting factor of software development speed .

Hard lessons

Startup employees don't earn more

Original English

we try to get as close as possible to big-company salaries, we don't expect anything beyond 40 hrs / week, 100% paid health benefits, 401k, …

Tool picks

Ask HN: How did you increase your UX skills?

Original English

In one product I created, I worked for months to create some truly awesome clients for my backend.

Tool picks

Zb: An Early-Stage Build System

Original English

I made a conscious decision to only support content-addressed derivations in zb to simplify the build model and provide easier-to-understand guarantees to users.

Experience is a head start. The next step is yours.

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