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Original EnglishThese guys were paying $10K - $40K per color page in Golf Digest so maybe $250K an issue and we were asking them to pay …
Tell HN: A Demo Day without the investors
Original EnglishWhen Harry (my co-founder) and I started Trevor.io we obviously needed customers.
Show HN: Tier.run – Terraform for Stripe
Original EnglishWhen we started Tier, we knew that there was something interesting in the SaaS pricing and packaging space.
Ask HN: I think My code isn't Good enough
Original EnglishBut the code isn't' throwing exceptions, it doesn't have bugs, and the customers are asking for new features, not fixes.
Ask HN: How do small companies do recruitment?
Original EnglishI run a meetup and the sponsorships are quite cheap, esp when compared to recruiter fees or the opportunity cost of an unfilled job.
Selfhosted tech starter pack for development of new project or startup
Original EnglishI spent my first year writing terraform and helping design the product for low-cost scalability.
Restarting my career after motherhood
Original EnglishI've used the latter for 40 years and its never failed.
Apache AGE, a PostgreSQL extension with graph database functionality
Original EnglishI play around with Neo4J, but no one has paid me to use it yet.
Rent-a-coder hilarity (2008)
Original EnglishAnd we focus on sub-$500 tasks, because the margin for error is significantly smaller, so if a client comes in with a huge job, we …