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

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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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paraschopra·2025-01-242246 points
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Solve a problem people will pay for before expanding the team.

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Tool picks

How does Ada's memory safety compare against Rust?

Original English

I've written Rust professionally for the past 6 years, and pretty much exclusively for stuff where memory safety is the least of my concerns (even …

Y1661582025-02
Hard lessons

Stop claiming you’re profitable

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But we started just like that — slowly, and not profitable.

Y1651182012-06
Hard lessons

My website was stolen by a hacker and I got it back

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Over the next 6 years I've made a complaint about every single fault, bill error, outage and mistake they have made.

Y1651552014-04
Hard lessons

The AWS Spend of Our SaaS Side-Business

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Integrating API gateway into our deployment took a little bit of work, but we're happy to have it part of our automated deployment process.

Y165822017-06
Tool picks

EdgeDB is now Gel and Postgres is the future

Original English

when i was at github we used vitess to roll out a migration that took 3 weeks to complete.

Y1651232025-02
Hard lessons

Ask HN: Twilio suspended account because someone sent us a fraud text

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I started out just doing call forwarding and later on added text messaging when customers started to expect to be able to text message us.

Y1641912022-01
Business ideas

Ask HN: Is it just me or do 99% of SWE jobs offers seem completely pointless?

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It was not challenging but stressful, and I couldn’t care less about the talks about profitability and shareholders.

Y1641992022-01
Tool picks

Clear Linux Project

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I've seen plenty of monolithic apps deployed to a single server, where in practice upgrading an underlying language/system breaks part of it.

Y164562015-05
Tool picks

Ask HN: Do you manage your family's digital safety?

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I back up (export) 1Password vaults quarterly to an offline backup I maintain.

Y1631282022-04

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