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Ask HN: Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online?
Original Englishthe site ended up bailing near the end, but I got a deposit out of them so I'm selling this site for cost. …
Show HN: Datagridxl2.js – Fast Excel-like data table library
Original EnglishI used to work for a fintech startup and our sales team had a hard time finding customers for the product that we're building.
Major Facebook security hole lets you view your friends’ live chats
Original EnglishI understand they must get a ton of these but as paying customers who rely on Facebook for key promotion you'd think they'd pay attention.
Netflix Splits DVD And Streaming Businesses
Original EnglishHeck I can rent a three year old server with similar specs for $300/month.
Show HN: Deepstream.io – open-source real-time server with pub/sub and data sync
Original Englishwe largely use stuff that is well documented or very popular largely because we've been burnt on the consulting stuff before (no issue with paying …
Show HN: Route your prompts to the best LLM
Original EnglishPricing-wise, we charge the same rates as the backend providers we route to, without taking any margins.
Zombie Startups
Original EnglishMaybe your revenue wasnt't growing 10% week-over-week, but some metric probably was (maybe you weren't measuring the one that was - like value of leads …
Buying VMWare Fusion: A lesson in how to drive customers away
Original English- I switched my pricing from USD to CAD, and you added $10 despite the two currencies trading at parity (I quickly swapped back, and …
Facebook fined €110M for providing misleading information on WhatsApp takeover
Original EnglishWe could get rid of a lot of advertising if we paid for the content we consume, but we choose not to.