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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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Ask HN: Do you get paid to contribute to a open source project?
Original EnglishBusinesses buy additional features, I get recurring revenue so that I am paid to maintain the OSS and commercial parts.
Ask HN: How much time do you spend on “marketing” your open source projects?
Original English2- We have been writing blog content to show people how Servicebot will help cut business cost but automating the billing and customer management processes.
C2Rust Transpiler
Original EnglishI'm not aware of any bugs that were caught this way but we did ship models with bugs several times.
Focus by Automation
Original EnglishI've tried and failed numerous times to succeed with a simple text note.
Google Play Music on the App Store
Original EnglishIt may be a little more $ each month but I found the advantages Spotify has over GPM were worth the cost.
Why you might want a domain-specific database like TigerBeetleDB
Original EnglishWe use automated testing to test TigerBeetle with read/write storage fault injection levels as high as 20-30%.
Ask HN: Anyone making a living from just 1 app?
Original EnglishBut paying users to install your app is not good business model :-/
AWS cancels serverless Postgres service that scales to zero
Original EnglishAfter the first year on that I looked into v2 but my costs would have doubled and I didn't believe their promises of faster scaling.
How to bootstrap your company to profitability
Original EnglishThat company won first place and $75k during a business plan competition and we hired two full-time guys to build out the software for us.