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

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Business ideas

Profitable from day one: the VWO founder’s long game

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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Solve a problem people will pay for before expanding the team.

#Bootstrapping#B2B SaaS#Growth
Business ideas

Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records

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after going through the "system." I served as Director at Defy Ventures, a great non-profit in the reentry space, but was interested in a scalable …

Hard lessons

Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row

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I guess I'm one of the people who was upset that it didn't exist before, and I didn't enable iCloud Backup as a result.

Tool picks

Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week

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the work -- because, hey, work is hard and no one is paying them and yadda. …

Business ideas

Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

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I stopped attending .Net conferences/meetings about 4-5 years ago because they were turning into Azure sales presentations more than development presentations in general.

Hard lessons

Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam

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Yeah I failed to find a date but figured it wouldn't be severely out of date.

Hard lessons

Google engineer writing Amazon reviews on USB-C cables that don't work

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the years (mostly as marketing and violation of privacy became their primary revenue sources), but this is a good thing, for the consumer, for the …

Business ideas

What Happens When You Send a Zero-Day to a Bank?

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But it costs you nothing and might solve a problem for you.

Tool picks

Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

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In particular, L2TP/IPSec-PSK should be an option out of the box because it's an exceedingly common configuration.

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