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

Their experience.
Your next move.✳

Discover hard-earned lessons, useful tools, and business ideas
hidden in the conversations on Hacker News.

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Real experiences, useful perspectives, and things you wish you’d known.

Hard lessons

RethinkDB 2.1 beta: automatic failover with Raft

Original English

We tried to use these libraries, but a project of RethinkDB's scope has a lot of abstractions for networking, threading, memory allocation, etc.

Tool picks

Clojure's machine learning ecosystem

Original English

I have deployed production code that I wrote in Clojure.

Business ideas

What I learned from a month of blogging and 250k visits

Original English

The amount paid ranged from about $20/month (of which I'd see half) with TLA to $100/month (I kid you not) for direct sales.

Business ideas

Building an Open Source Service

Original English

I run a small SaaS thing for which I charge $19/mo from a dozen clients.

Tool picks

Show HN: A place to buy and sell services directly from each other

Original English

the last time we were at Ikea were we used that laserthingy ourselves and paid with the plastic card instead of waiting in a line …

Tool picks

Linode Managed Databases

Original English

I am not the OP but I setup a fairly expensive server to run my Postgres,redis,and other fire and forget processes.

Hard lessons

On Being Rich-ish: Lessons I learned becoming suddenly middle-class

Original English

To give you an example, I earned around $7,000 in all of 2014 and my average monthly income from 2016 through 2018 was $1800.

Tool picks

Ask HN: Platform for senior devs to learn other programming languages?

Original English

The code isn't always 100% bug free, but I understand shell scripting well enough to usually fix any bugs.

Business ideas

Ask HN: My side project is ramen-profitable. What do I do now?

Original English

Maybe if I built that in a very robust way – but my tries to do that for Germany all only improved the situation, there …

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