FROM BUILDERS, FOR DOERSVOL. 03 / QUALITY-FIRST DISCOVERY

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The Web’s Declarative, Composable Future

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Others have tried and failed as well, because the web, to most people, is good enough.

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Ask YC: Story for Forbes - What really happens when your startup fails?

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I lost $30,000 of my own money when my startup failed back in the day.

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Ask HN: Can we brainstorm a better way to find a co-founder?

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We failed probably because of not what you're thinking.

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Ask HN: Hacker Finances? / How much do you save each month?

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In the past I have managed to have periods where I saved 40% of my income, and currently I'm probably going backwards by about 10% …

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PhD vs Startup

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I'd been working in industry for the previous five years so it was a 80% drop in income at least.

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Minecraftly: Inspire kids to learn computing via Minecraft

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To avoid crazy costs I setup a bit of infrastructure: I managed to pipe the active / logged in user count of the minecraft server …

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How We Are Improving Performance

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Thanks, it was definitely tough for us to admit that we failed our customers, but the entire team at imgix felt that we had an …

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Ask HN: With recent layoffs, how would you advise new grads entering the market?

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I made the mistake of moving furniture for the first 3 years out of school to support my struggling shareware business.

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Looking into the eyes of failure

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Many of the people around me would laugh when I said I'd failed, because they were judging it by how far I'd come and the …

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