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

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Discover hard-earned lessons, useful tools, and business ideas
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Tool picks

React/JavaScript fatigue

Original English

My team has been using Clojure for the past 5 years and we've never had trouble hiring people to work with it.

Hard lessons

Three quarters of Android apps track users with third party tools

Original English

but there's a weird gray area for me when they start using that data against me for things like dynamic pricing, dark patterns, selling email …

Field notes

Apple M1 Ultra's 64-Core GPU Fails to Dethrone the Mighty RTX 3090

Original English

On that regards, an M1 MacBook air can be 25% faster than a 7th gen 7700K processor, and I find it ironic.

Hard lessons

Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?

Original English

I started selling online, total sales so far over $300k.

Business ideas

Pinboard's New Pricing Policy

Original English

I wonder if the average revenue would be closer to $40/person than to $10/person.

Business ideas

How we scaled Slack to support 1000s of developers

Original English

Around 18 months ago or so- I started getting pulled into more revenue conversations as we moved upmarket.

Business ideas

Apple's First Public Demonstration of the Mac, Unseen Since 1984 [video]

Original English

I've paid $5 for iOS games that gave me vastly more hours of enjoyment than games that I used to pay $50+ for.

Tool picks

Kotlin for JavaScript

Original English

We have an API client and some other functionality that we use across JVM on our server and kotlin-js.

Business ideas

Ramit Sethi and Patrick McKenzie on Getting Your First Consulting Client

Original English

We talked the origin stories for our three consulting businesses (I run a sole-prop consultancy as roughly a 20% time project, Keith runs a small …

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