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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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it
Original EnglishI started a side SaaS project that saw some success so I put payments in, and it slowly grew into a small business.
I got pwned by my cloud costs
Original EnglishThat's the only reason that I personally use cloud services (of course, the reasons for SaaS/Enterprise clients are usually more valid than mine).