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

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Business ideas

After VWO’s acquisition, its founder reflected on workflow problems, customer feedback, and keeping growth within the means of the business.

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paraschopra·2025-01-242246 points
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Solve a problem people will pay for before expanding the team.

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Real experiences, useful perspectives, and things you wish you’d known.

Hard lessons

Otter.ai has saved reporters hours transcribing interviews. Caveat emptor

Original English

I tried and failed to launch a startup in this space.

Y2341182022-02
Hard lessons

Chromium: Add support for Animated PNG

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There's no video format that works with tiny dimensions (I tried to upload a 3x3 gif to Imgur and it failed because it couldn't convert …

Y2341402017-03
Hard lessons

Show HN: PgCat, Postgres pooler with sharding, load balancing and failover

Original English

Again, probably has a ways to go, everything we've tried over the last 10 years has failed to live up to a replacement for pgbouncer.

Y233542022-02
Business ideas

Ask HN: Should I try to manufacture toasters?

Original English

I used to sell bikinis online, which was fun and profitable in the beginning.

Y2334452024-01
Tool picks

Software design gets worse before it gets better

Original English

We am still running native x11, only because we run the steam client and only because of that (like 32bits support code).

Y2331402024-06
Hard lessons

Tell HN: Bitwarden does not export attachments in backups

Original English

I truly, truly hope BW succeeds, because I'd love to move away from my current setup.

Y2331232022-06
Tool picks

RubyWM – an X11 window manager in pure Ruby

Original English

I know this is a joke, but, this goes right back to the first time I deployed Ruby and had "the speed discussion" with people.

Y233962024-01
Business ideas

How startup Fab died

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Unfortunately, as Fab confessed (in the article), they never found product-market fit ("we spent $200M and we have not proven our business model").

Y2331272015-02
Tool picks

Sublime Text 3 marked as recommended build

Original English

I have enough of work without having to contribute to each of the products I'm using - so I prefer paying the people at JetBrains …

Y2331292016-05

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