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Ask HN: How do you find clients when you have no network and can only do remote?
Original EnglishI've spent out like 30 custom proposals (that's around 15-20 hours of time wasted) and never heard back from any client, except for maybe one, …
A solution for enabling UDP in the web
Original EnglishI am using electron-webrtc to run it under nodejs, which probably means about a gigabyte of overhead in total, but given the AWC EC2 pricing …
Show HN: Barnacl.es, a community news site for never-funded bootstrappers
Original EnglishWe bootstrapped 4 years ago and after a year we had enough revenue to pay ourselves a small paycheck.
Why we ditched PayPal for Stripe
Original EnglishAnyway, disclaimer: we run between 50K and 100K a month through Paypal, so that is probably why we get fantastic support from them and better …
Bootstrap 4 drops IE9 support and goes full flexbox
Original English90% of coders move on to the next profit making exercise.
Dear sir, you have built a compiler (2022)
Original EnglishWhen I work in Go or in Python I use the testing frameworks that are part of that ecosystem.
Lines of code that beat A/B testing (2012)
Original EnglishFrom all the evidence I've seen in places I've worked, the motivating stories of "we increased revenue 10% by a random change nobody thought would …
Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?
Original EnglishIt's not much compared to some of the rates on here, but I work with lovely, interesting clients in the non-profit sector.
Apple gets smacked by $450M e-book price-fixing fine
Original EnglishI still worry about with Amazon and "indie" publishing; friends of mine who are self-publishers often say that they make 80-90% of their sales on …