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After VWO’s acquisition, its founder reflected on workflow problems, customer feedback, and keeping growth within the means of the business.
Solve a problem people will pay for before expanding the team.
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No, You can't retire rich at 30 if you sell your startup
Original Englishinstead of a $70 cable subscription (or an expensive antenna for my area), and while I made this choice to be "frugal" in the end …
Sony software updates breaks movie theater projectors
Original EnglishHowever if they updated and, for example, broke HomeKit support and no longer worked, I'd be angry the next time I tried to use them.
Memory leak proof every C program
Original EnglishThen 1 year later we deployed the replacement for the legacy service and the problem was solved.
Why I think Rust is the "language of the future" for systems programming
Original EnglishC# and java are definitely not the solution for new applications which are expected to generate revenue for the next 10 years.
pg_rewind in PostgreSQL 9.5
Original Englishthe master in order to seed a new slave, because the traffic never stops and we could not afford the memory or iops overhead of …
Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?
Original EnglishI now have ownership again with multiple clients paying $5k a year for the tool.
Ask HN: What are your app monetisation strategies?
Original EnglishI, myself, hardly like to pay for anything, and love free products, however, I've recently tried to figure out a pricing plan that I personally …
Email doesn't suck – it's email clients that need improving
Original EnglishI wrote a console-based modal email-client, which was written in 50% C++ and 50% Lua for the user-interface and all scripting.
Why Companies Are Ditching the Cloud: The Rise of Cloud Repatriation
Original EnglishBut, since the cloud makes it easy to deploy we seem to gravitate towards creating a separation of work efforts by just deploying more.