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It Doesn't Have To Be All Or Nothing With A Startup
Original Englishthe fog on my own software so that I don't need as much time?" That change in framing has really saved me a lot of …
Show HN: Infracost (YC W21): Cloud Costs for Terraform in VSCode
Original EnglishWhen I started looking at cloud pricing in 2009 there were ~10K price points, today there are more than 3M.
Starting a business isn't as crazy and risky as they say
Original EnglishI'd rather make $50k at a startup I built with my own hands than $100,000/yr working in a gray cube "slinging code" for some corporation...
Warn HN: When PayPal doesn't know the meaning of "Donation"...
Original EnglishI tried to reason with them (showed the definition of "donation") and explained that I'm just getting paid at the whim of the user for …
Ask HN: I'm a dull person since software doesn't excite me anymore. What to do?
Original EnglishI've saved this for last but consider meditation—in the very simple sense of sitting down quietly in the morning or evening, maybe with a cup …
One Person Profitable (In defense of single founders)
Original EnglishI support around 40,000 users and half a million a year in revenue from my web apps and ecommerce sites.
Ask HN: Help, Investor wants money back in 7 days "Or else"
Original Englishwe had developed, refused to be accountable to any touches/sales goals, hired staff without budget approval, purchased equipment/services without approval (sometimes express disapproval), took 20% …
Ask HN: What was life like before and after a baby
Original EnglishI have paid time off because of my kids.
Follow-up on 4K displays for programmers
Original EnglishBut each of them cost me $1,100 and that's the same price I paid for my first 30" monitor several years prior, a Dell 3007WFP.