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

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

Hard lessons

Show HN: Airgram - Send iOS/Android notifications, without building an app

Original English

Notifo had a lot of users but their apps were free and I don't know if they even had any paying content providers pushing large …

Business ideas

Launch HN: RankScience (YC W17) – Automated Split-Testing for SEO

Original English

Our software is 100% technical SEO, and doesn't do anything black-hat, spammy, or anything related to link-building.

Tool picks

A solution for designers who don't know Wordpress

Original English

On security, the custom code we have written and deploy for our customers is stuff that I trust, because it's something we built ourselves and …

Hard lessons

Rails Consulting for Fun and Profit

Original English

That's tough to do with your first few projects, but becomes easier once you're more confident about your rate and abilities.

Hard lessons

How to Value a SaaS Business

Original English

I've made the mistake of not selling an asset fast enough, and that probably cost me $100k-150k (easily!).

Business ideas

Show HN: Lotus – Open source pricing and packaging infrastructure

Original English

We’re excited to open-source this because we want to enable developers to build their custom pricing and integration edge cases on top of this base.

Tool picks

Show HN: Leaping – Debug Python tests instantly with an LLM debugger

Original English

We met at our previous job, where we spent about a third of our lives combating a constant firehose of bugs.

Business ideas

Ask HN: After almost 30 years the romance is over - What now?

Original English

It wasn't entirely deliberate, but looking back, I can say I found a way forward when I started working with non-profits and helping at schools.

Field notes

All Software is Legacy

Original English

I worked on for about 10 years was recently shuttered, and I am extremely proud of what that code did for the business which paid …

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