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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.

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Solve a problem people will pay for before expanding the team.

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The Billion Dollar Startup Club

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In the case of JustFab, they excel because they fixed the problems, and they are running a profitable service their customers want.

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Hard lessons

Giving Up on TDD

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the cost of failure can be very high (not normally human life high, but certainly economically prohibitive) and the processes to deploy an update anything …

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Hard lessons

Ask HN: One-person companies—how do you manage it all and stay sane?

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The first mistake I made was not saying no to customers.

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Launch HN: Slai (YC W22) – Build ML models quickly and deploy them as apps

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We also charge per compute hour for model training and inference, but (currently) that's just the wholesale cloud cost—we don't make any margin there.

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My deployment platform is a shell script

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I use similar things for bigger (multi-server) deploys too.

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Business ideas

There's No Such Thing as Software Productivity (2012)

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So, if you're in the business of software, the goal is happy customers. (And I use the word Customers carefully here.

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Sweden proposes ban on ride-sharing services that make profits

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I look forward soon start working halv time sharing 390 days of paid parental leave with my wife.

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Hard lessons

Show HN: Emacs Mini Manual

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Doing so was my first foray into org-mode and literate programming and I can't recommend it enough, if only for keeping your Emacs configuration sanely …

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Business ideas

Ask HN: Making extra income with books

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The book was all new content, rather than repackaged blog posts, and I sold the package for $99 with occasional sales of $79 and $59.

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