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

Their experience.
Your next move.✳

Discover hard-earned lessons, useful tools, and business ideas
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Real experiences, useful perspectives, and things you wish you’d known.

Tool picks

The baseline for web development in 2022

Original English

I used Firefox for about 15 years mostly because of it's ad-blocking capabilities, even though it was generally a slower browser than IE.

Tool picks

Swift sucks at web serving or does it?

Original English

Like yes Node JS still dominates but we know other runtimes like Bun run much faster.

Hard lessons

Ask HN: Is ChatGPT down?

Original English

Maybe my business isn't actively relying on the resources I have deployed in that datacenter.

Business ideas

PikaPods – Instant Open Source App Hosting

Original English

I use it a few hours a week and a minute/hour based cloud pricing from many providers are ideal for this.

Hard lessons

When to kill your startup

Original English

the phone and call someone and pitch them and there was no outcome and I paid you $20 to do it you probably wouldn't have …

Business ideas

Why You Don't Need A Programmer

Original English

I don't know how to code, but I can help with wireframes, customer interviews, feedback, marketing plans, pricing strategies, partnership opportunities, etc.

Tool picks

If you had to start over, what technologies would you learn in 2014?

Original English

Surely Chrome's permissions for extensions could be improved for better security, because as we've seen, perfectly legitimate extensions can turn over night to mallware/spyware/adware.

Business ideas

Messaging apps shouldn't make money – Pavel Durov and Telegram

Original English

because the old wheel is so well known and understood that you can't lock people in or profit off the users using it. …

Business ideas

Job interviews go both ways (2011)

Original English

I used to be insecure about my ability to obtain sales from customers, but after having to do it over past 3 months and focusing …

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