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How to get your first 10 customers
Original EnglishI used to contact potential clients years ago and then GoDaddy marked my domain as spam and made me cough up $199. …
Ask HN: Best current model routers for OpenWRT, DD-WRT, Tomato, etc.?
Original EnglishpfSense is really a good choice, I'm successfully using it for two years without any major problems on a dual-wan setup and some 50 clients.
Flynn: open source PaaS
Original EnglishExperienced Flynn last year, we spent about 2 weeks making it work properly with our solution (We had a complex SaaS solution hosted on Heroku, …
Featured in the press, but where are the users?
A maker recalled a burst of press traffic that did not turn into users. Smaller publications closer to the audience worked better.
Go where your customers are, not just where makers gather.
Why I’m dumping Firebase for Web
Original EnglishI think that all these SaaS/BaaS services do speed up development initially but they slow things down in the long run.
I tried every top email marketing tool
Original EnglishAfter trying a few also we ended up with EmailOctopus because of simplicity (we only send plain text emails) and cost.
Email doesn't suck – it's email clients that need improving
Original EnglishI wrote a console-based modal email-client, which was written in 50% C++ and 50% Lua for the user-interface and all scripting.
Canon is telling customers how to override counterfeit cartridge warnings
Original EnglishThey offered nothing until I started telling my story on Twitter, and suddenly a Support person messaged me on Twitter offering free replacements.
Why Shitty Products Survive and Thrive
Original EnglishObviously this was a cost issue of the new ticketing platform but also the unknown cost of retraining the whole company.