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Ask HN: Do you charge your webdesign clients for ongoing hosting and support?
Original EnglishWe lost 1/3 of the customers, but I think we only needed 3 clients to equal the revenue of the previous system.
Ask HN: How to Overcome the Trough of Sorrow?
Original EnglishI had another service I tried to sell that would have been an enormous value add for business clients.
Ask HN: Should I remind users that their card is about to be charged?
Original EnglishI made the mistake of simply changing the signup form / billing code without making heavy modifications to the marketing site and onboarding flow, which …
Ask HN: I want to start a clothing company.
Original EnglishSo that was 150 shirts to start off, if my memory serves correctly it came out to roughly $4 per t-shirt.
Show HN: Quaderno.io – Invoicing for Stripe
Original EnglishI would literally have paid for three $24 subscriptions by now but sadly it failed to meet my expectations.
PHP and the Lean Startup
Original EnglishI built what is, per Quantcast, likely the world's #1200x largest web site, starting from $50 on a terrible virtual server, using nothing but an …
Apple Versus Wall Street
Original EnglishI tried to run a Perl script on my mac the other day and a perl module wouldn't compile because of some error with PowerPC …
Working at a Startup vs. a Big Company
Original EnglishForward many years, and I have my own thing going and I appreciate the failed startup experience because it gives me some framework on which …
NearlyFreeSpeech.NET now supports persistent processes
Original EnglishIt was down because the pre-paid credit had expired, but wouldn't even take payment from someone they didn't know to get it back up.