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Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels
Original EnglishI’ve designed my media set-up around Jellyfin on a weak server that can’t handle transcoding, and very-capable clients that don’t need it.
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.
Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union
Original EnglishInstead of paying 5% for the Unreal engine, I only want to pay 2% when I use someone Unity's networking stack.
I regret my website redesign
Original EnglishWe were something like 25% off of our goal and 10-15% off of our previous year's sales.
After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel
Original EnglishSince then I have been using this setup happily and it appears I will continue to do so!
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 …
Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row
Original EnglishI 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.
Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week
Original Englishthe work -- because, hey, work is hard and no one is paying them and yadda. …
Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business
Original EnglishWe tried to look at becoming an IPSP (I think that's the acronym), letting customers leverage our merchant accounts like Stripe or Paypal do, but …