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Ask HN: Success stories from McKinsey (et al.)
Original EnglishI built financial models, workplans, capability assessments for e.g., cloud migration for automotive part manufacturers (i.e., high-tech but not necessarily computer savvy companies) directly collaborating …
Ask HN: Any programmers here that are able to make a living selling their own programs?
Original EnglishI sold for a sum which combined with my savings from the ad revenue is enough to support me for about 5 years. …
Show HN: A better way to timeblock your day
Original EnglishI'm sure in the long run I am missing out on some really cool things but I started noticing this trend of hiding pricing to …
Silicon Valley ageism versus the productivity of famous inventors
Original EnglishI'm $100k+ in debt; I grew up poor.
Bank account verification and transfers in just a few lines of code
Original Englishthe hundreds of dollars and can run into the thousands paying the standard 2.9% + credit card fees for every payment vs. …
Blood, Sweat and Years: Raising Money as a Deep Learning Startup
Original Englishthe idea of chasing after 10s of millions of people for $5/month when I could produce value for 1 company I know and sell software …
Ask HN: Our users don't want to pay taxes
Original English(Also, we use Stripe Tax to handle sales tax for the customers who do use the monetized features.
In search of organic software
Original EnglishI’ve also started to use the term customer-funded (similar to VC-funded), instead of “bootstrapped”, since the latter seems to give off an impression of early …
Why startups shouldn’t have to pay to pitch angel investors
Original EnglishMahalo 2.0 which came out in June gave us a major boost because we started giving ~40% of the revenue from topic pages to our …