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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.
Solve a problem people will pay for before expanding the team.
Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records
Original Englishafter 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 …
Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor
Original EnglishI stopped attending .Net conferences/meetings about 4-5 years ago because they were turning into Azure sales presentations more than development presentations in general.
What Happens When You Send a Zero-Day to a Bank?
Original EnglishBut it costs you nothing and might solve a problem for you.
Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers
Original EnglishI've spent about 12 years reducing the amount of memory the Umbraco CMS uses, compared to normal installs, and I love that aspect of my …
Show HN: Sorting Two Metric Tons of Lego
Original EnglishScaling up now that I have the software working is definitely an option but I have a good set of very well paying customers and …
GitLab Database Incident – Live Report
Original EnglishSure it's not as efficient, so it's gonna cost you more in CPU and RAM, but it's trivial to scale horizontally.
Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project
Original EnglishWhen we started with them, we paid about $400, and they did payroll, accounting, and taxes, plus Stripe integration for a DE C corp.
Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month
Original EnglishWell, I've sold through Amazon and other channels and have had over 100k in sales, all from being able to find items cheap enough to …