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Things You Should Be Doing With Your Server, But Probably Aren't
Original English[5] I've observed this scale easily, with no slowdown, to 30 clients against one sub-$1k boot/repo server.
Ask HN: Why shouldn't I leave Google?
Original EnglishI went off and did my own startup for 2.5 years, and then wound up crawling back to corporate America.
Why engineers make great CEOs
Original EnglishI switched to geology in undergrad (early 00's), oil companies were not hiring geologists and hadn't been for 15 years. …
A Startup Shies Away from the Gig Economy
Original Englishour experience is that high priced transactions are usually easier to deal with because finances are more buttoned up and the deal is less emotional. …
Lessons from my third year running a SaaS
Original EnglishI try to document everything, and I started a YouTube channel with support videos to keep the support load low.
If you wouldn't pay for my app, your pricing advice is worthless
Original EnglishWhen I was doing freelance web design, you wouldn't believe how many businesses were spending $400/mo on paper YellowPages ads, but couldn't see the value …
Amazon Career Choice Program
Original EnglishFor contrast: Over the 25 years of my professional career, I have worked for a lot of startups.
A Less Risky Path to Entrepreneurship in Software Development
Original EnglishI started building for the web at 13, had a freelance business for 5years, paid for college by building fundraising videos for another 4, did …
Show HN: Google Blade – discover, create, and share custom search engines
Original EnglishI've spent most of the last 10 years doing some variation of SEO or Affiliate marketing, always happy to try new methods regardless of how …