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

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Hard lessons

Ask HN: Business Dying. Please Help.

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I've worked hard for years trying to get to where we are and pivoted this food business at least twice already in 3 years.

Hard lessons

Ask HN: Has anyone successfully pivoted from web dev to AI/ML development?

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I tried to put a business to develop a next-generation data integration tool and did consulting projects, learned Python because customers were asking for it. …

Hard lessons

The danger of the mediocre success when testing startup hypotheses (2023)

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I've built a few sales team for early stage startups, and invariably the question comes up: "Inbound sales is working.

Business ideas

React, Flux, RethinkDB and SageMathCloud – Summer 2015 Update

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Doing offsite backups mainly costs bandwidth -- I spent about $20 in the last 3 days on downloading offsite backups of user data (to a …

Tool picks

Vaultwarden: Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust

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Edit: Actually what makes me the most nervous overall is compromises of the client, not the self-hosted server I run.

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Vivaldi Mail 1.0: Email client built into the browser

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But putting that aside here were a few problems with Vivaldi and their Mail client the last time I tried it.

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Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now

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So instead, I tried my best to help by reporting bugs.

Tool picks

The short, happy reign of CD-ROM

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I used to get calls all the time, asking for some sort of hardware support.

Tool picks

Stop Writing REST API Clients

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First: the ruleset, ensuring it's 100% to spec lest a client fail.

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