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

Their experience.
Your next move.✳

Discover hard-earned lessons, useful tools, and business ideas
hidden in the conversations on Hacker News.

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

Tool picks

The Sun is Setting on Rails-style MVC Frameworks

Original English

People write apps this way now because it's faster, easier, and more flexible.

Business ideas

Failed Startup's Final Income Statements Reveal Grave Error

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By 2005, gross merchandise sales were $370 million, and we made the Inc.

Business ideas

Ask HN: who started something in 2012 which is already profitable?

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I spent 100 hours making something and spent 5 hours a week maintaining it and it cost £500 a month to run, and the revenue …

Hard lessons

I'm so sorry everyone. Or: why I'm switching to Cloudflare

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I actually prefer paying for reasonable priced services, that way you know what you're getting.

Hard lessons

I'm tired of Google's business products

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I also don't depend on anything being available, so I avoid the pain every time there's an outage.

Tool picks

AWS costs every programmer should know (2019)

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I have used kubernetes blue/green deployments in an old job and it was beautiful.

Tool picks

The software development final exam: Algorithms and Data Structures

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(personal projects are another matter, but I don't get paid for those)

Business ideas

App Engine charges $6,500 to update a ListProperty on 14.1 million entities

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Over a thousand schools and half a million parents use it - not enormous numbers, but a very real and profitable business.

Business ideas

The Rise Of The Million Dollar, One-Person Business

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After all expenses were paid and done, my dad would make about $100-120k a year on a decent year.

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