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Ask HN: My startup has failed. What comes next?
Original EnglishBut, we paid our bills, and paid our staff out of personal savings, and gracefully closed the company.
Crick, a time-tracker dashboard, goes open-source
Original EnglishWatson was open source per se but we thought we could maybe create Crick as a paying-product.
Ask HN: What password managers can you recommend?
Original EnglishEnpass made this drastically easier than any other tool I've used.
Ask HN: Please recommend how to manage personal serverss
Original EnglishAnsible across 1 server and 2 desktops with no changes takes ~3m17s and I wish it was way faster.
Ask HN: What is your opinion on Open BSD?
Original EnglishI used Firefox for browsing, and it was noticeably slower than on Linux.
Ask HN: Best way to sell a small web app?
Original EnglishThe site is now being used by about 700 blogs, only about 20 of them are paying $10/month which covers hosting costs but isn't much …
My experience with exporting Postgres RDS partitioned tables to S3
Original EnglishI used as an example, we started making progress, we even got a patched version of PostgreSQL RDS deployed, but once the bug was identified, …
SimpleGeo Launches
Original EnglishMulti-homing isn't a big priority for me, but I could easily do it for not much effort/cost.
If net neutrality falls, what happens next?
Original EnglishBecause no one here believes a honest business will ever deploy a modern network on any large scale, so the best we can hope for …