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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.
Solve a problem people will pay for before expanding the team.
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Programming is hard, let's go scripting..
Original EnglishI was a C++ programmer and this was easier in some cases (but less flexible in other ways that I was used to exploiting).
Customers may want the feature but reject SaaS delivery
A prospective receipt-printer user likes an HTTP API but cannot route business data through a third party.
Demand for a feature does not validate its delivery or pricing model.
What Do We Know About Time Pressure in Software Development?
Original EnglishHowever given the complexity of the problem and the tight timelines I had to solve.
Ask HN: Why are you programming your hobby projects in a niche language?
Original EnglishThat might be more relevant because I’ll share user stats, real numbers on revenue, trial and error with paid advertising etc.
Ask HN: How do you find clients?
Original EnglishI started doing web development for myself almost 3 years ago and I was able to support myself and then was picked up by a …
SQLite in Go, with and Without Cgo
Original EnglishI also use it extensively in unit tests (often creating and destroying in-memory databases hundreds of times during just a couple of seconds of tests).
There’s a simple alternative to the current web
Original EnglishThere are a lot of services that I can justify paying $5 per month for, cloud storage for instance, but a bookmarking service, nope.
Time Series Analysis and Its Applications: With R Examples
Original Englishthe volume under the sales curve, setting a price point that will lead to the greatest revenue at the least cost, instead of focusing on …
Moz Dumps Amazon Web Services, Citing Expense and 'Lacking' Service
Original EnglishIn my previous startup (circa 2005) we started at The Planet (are they still around?) and within 18 months we were colocating physical servers at …