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OVH raises $327M to accelerate its international development
Original Englisha huge number of our sales conversations are people who spend $50k+ on aws or something similar, but are scared shitless to move off of …
Mika Mobile ends Android development
Original EnglishMeanwhile, Android sales amounted to around 5% of our revenue for the year, and continues to shrink."
Rails + MySQL scaling on a budget
Original EnglishLet's say I'm a bootstrapper, and have a startup that earns $3k monthly.
3 Rules of Database App Aging
Original EnglishI started we were roughly 3 years out of a migration from MS Access to SQL Server - all done without rewrites or restructuring, but …
Five startups from Norway
Original EnglishFinally, I have a state gross-receipts tax of 7%, but I typically offload that onto my customers.
Your career is a mess
Original EnglishIn fact, why would you jump in full time before you have reason to believe its' going to return revenue.
Show HN: Webhook – Static site generator with a CMS
Original EnglishEven with all the moving parts, it deploys dumb static sites, because we wanted reliability and speed.
Super Neat Product Tutorial Website / Software
Original EnglishUncertainty in pricing is terrible so in my view avoid the how many users watch your tutorial pricing.
The myth of America's missing software engineers
Original Englishwe needed him to work on this C project that was critical to our infrastructure and is responsible for 100k+/day in revenue while we pay …