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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.
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Tell HN: Did you know you can negotiate price on many things?
Original EnglishI worked on an organic vegetable farm for 5 years. 90% of their income came from direct farmer's market sales.
Cloud services like AWS or Google Cloud Platform may be the wrong choice
Original EnglishI made two games, one was hybrid-cloud and one was bare metal only; the cost savings were not trivial.
Ask HN: How big does an open-source project need to be for a lifestyle business?
Original EnglishThe open source software was available completely for free, but compiling it was a hassle, using it was annoying because of a few serious bugs, …
Tell HN: I got 10x Hetzner storage at the same price
Original EnglishI used to keep backups on GDrive but all the anecdotes about accounts locked by bots and non-existent customer support made me uncertain about using …
From Chrome Apps to the Web
Original EnglishI learned a lot about pricing/offering (I was surprised when I discovered I had more people paying $40 for the Events Edition than $5), building …
Ask HN: How do you keep track of software requirements and test them?
Original EnglishI'm building a single tool to bridge the gap between product(requirement and production phase) and quality (testing)
Temporal Python – A durable, distributed asyncio event loop (2023)
Original EnglishWe work through them, usually after deep-diving into the temporal server code itself, but there's startlingly little documentation on self-hosting, and even less community support.
Ask HN: Best current model routers for OpenWRT, DD-WRT, Tomato, etc.?
Original Englishbut may suddenly lose connection and start not accepting some or all clients (usually looks as a failure to obtain address via DHCP). …
What is going to happen in 2015
Original EnglishI use cloud providers but have plenty of my own backup systems as well.