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

Their experience.
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Business ideas

Upcoming changes to user limits on Free tier of Gitlab SaaS

Original English

I also found LFS pricing too steep, so I just spun up a gitea and grabbed 150GB block storage for $10/month.

Hard lessons

CircleCI Announces Support for Gitlab

Original English

I've been a CircleCI customer for 3 years.

Business ideas

Ask HN: I am 30+ and bored with life and the software industry, what do I do?

Original English

Easily replaced the coding income, even though I was consulting in my last few years for $120 to $400 per hour.

Business ideas

Ask HN: Do you know other firms like Valve or GitHub?

Original English

That said, we're a company optimizing on lifestyle and happiness, rather than profit.

Business ideas

Y Combinator presents 26 new startups

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We've run a lot of numbers of a few hundred thousand files on representative websites, and we chose that pricing model because it was (1) …

Business ideas

Ask HN: Ever faced difficulties pivoting your job or career later in your life?

Original English

I've been in the telco industry for 12 years where I started as a systems tester, became a support engineer, got into a lead role …

Business ideas

Ask HN: Do newsletters work? Why do websites push them so much?

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Years ago, before email as we understand it today existed, I roasted and sold coffee and the newsletter drove close to 80% of the sales.

Hard lessons

What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

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For example the product starts out simple but grows in complexity, so suddenly you notice the 1 hour install that your consultant used to start …

Field notes

How To Become a Successful Freelance Web Developer (and Not Kill Your Career)

Original English

I've been running a website of my own for over 15 years and every job and client I've ever had stemmed from that site.

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