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Ask HN: Is the concept of a one-person software shop still viable?
Original EnglishNow, about 16 months post-shutdown, I still get emails from business owners who depended on us begging me to turn the service back on, and …
Why Learning to Code Is So Damn Hard
Original EnglishI paid for DigitalOcean, but I ran into troubles installing pip, bzzt there goes another.
Ask HN: What is the actual purpose of Docker?
Original EnglishIt can get hairy when you reach the image layer limit, because using up the last allowed image layer means you can't deploy to a …
Wow, or from the When-Apple-Became-the-Borg Department
Original EnglishI used to work for, they simply made the bug report "private" so that others couldn't see it. …
Ask HN: Do you have a profitable side project? How long did it take to achieve?
Original EnglishI made a couple of thousand dollars the first few years, but basically broke even profit-wise.
Earthstar – A database for private, distributed, offline-first applications
Original Englishthe trust graph before they find their target--but that's a lot of complexity for users to handle so I can see why keeping it simple …
Ask HN: Have you ever worked on a product that was killed by technical debt?
Original EnglishI worked for a company that grew considerably for 10 years and then lost its biggest client and folded quickly.
Startups in 13 Sentences (2009)
Original EnglishWe failed because we over-engineered a simple idea without truly knowing our customers or the industry.
Show HN: A minimalist (brutalist?) website for sharing all your links
Original EnglishI have a 90% finished "bit.ly but minimal" site that I started before this which has QR support and basic analytics but I ADHD'd into …