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After VWO’s acquisition, its founder reflected on workflow problems, customer feedback, and keeping growth within the means of the business.
Solve a problem people will pay for before expanding the team.
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Heroku Postgres is now based on AWS Aurora
Original EnglishThis is also the deployment method I use most often with Netlify.
Startup Competitive Advantages that Work
Original EnglishA key competitive advantage is that its revenue cycle is wrong.
One-time purchase or subscription? Follow the costs
A BoltAI developer described perpetual licenses with a year of updates, and why adding cloud features changes the pricing equation.
Match the pricing model to ongoing value and costs.
Life Lessons After 10 Years of BetterExplained.com
Original EnglishI can share quite similar numbers: I run my business for 10 years now.
AWS Cloud9 – Cloud Developer Environments
Original English(I don't have any knowledge of the market, but I'd imagine courseware providers attempt to charge 100% up-front to account for the extremely high churn.
I'm giving up on open source
Original Englishwhat we failed to do is to make FOSS self sustainable in the sense that people can live off it.
Ask HN: What do you regret in life?
Original EnglishBecause like learning a language, it seems like learning to program is easier at a younger age, when your brain is more flexible.
Creating Controversy for its own Sake (AA.com redesign fiasco)
Original EnglishIn 2002 the company was 4 months post-9/11 and to see the people there move full speed ahead on new applications amidst the greatest challenge …
Making your first dollar from a SaaS project
Original EnglishHe could have potentially skipped the 100 hours it took to build it and instead just tested the sales side.