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Google is Evil, Worse than PayPal: Don't use Google Checkout for your business
Original EnglishIn that time, I've had thousands of purchases through Checkout with gross sales well over $100k.
Ask HN: Azure has run out of compute – anyone else affected?
Original EnglishBecause of the high demand cloud providers can raise their prices and that's directly converted to profit since expenses remain the same, i.e. price gouging.
Freelancing: How to talk yourself into charging more
Original EnglishWe've managed to pay for up to 90% of our monthly expenses solely with recurring revenue.
Stripe down for 4 hours (and counting) for all those with Stripe Tax enabled
Original EnglishI used to recommend Spreedly to go with that, a payment gateway agnostic credit card vault so you can take your customers with you if …
“Our Marketing Is Up Fog Creek” And What We Did About It
Original Englishbefore that page, so often we use "opened the page" as a proxy for "started a trial" because it gets results weeks faster. …
Show HN: Winamp and other media players, rebuilt for the web with Web Components
Original EnglishSome point to our competitors with no encoding costs, and some even point to Youtube as a reason why it should be cheaper.
Forgejo: A self-hosted lightweight software forge
Original Englishbut at some point along the line the means became the end and we started wondering why FOSS wasn't paying the bills like it was …
How I wrote and published my novel using only open source tools
Original EnglishProfit per unit is about the same between the two, but we can sell more ebooks because the cost to the customer is only a …
Ask HN: Single Person startup/company?
Original EnglishAfter the closed beta I started out with about $140 / month in profits, which has grown to $330 / month over time.