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

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

Business ideas

Android is for startups

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So we use per-developer revenue instead of per-app revenue.

Business ideas

Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living

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the back rather than some hackintosh, ink-jet + scissors on 19lb copy paper and saying: "i PaId moNeY FoR ThiS!!" ;-) …

Field notes

The Unemployable Programmer

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This is anecdotal, but I've had an employee leave when she was paid 3 times what I made and given almost full autonomy.

Tool picks

PayPal inactivity fee

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So I paid 20 eur for effectively nothing.

Business ideas

Startup Puts Everything You Need for a Two-Acre Farm in a Shipping Container

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For comparison, the price point of our grater was $150USD and was still seen as too expensive by a substantial portion of our customers, some …

Hard lessons

SpaceX successfully launches and recovers second Falcon 9 in 48 hours

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our competitors because of our pricing, but judging by what they chose instead I don't envy them. …

Tool picks

Show HN: One – A new React framework unifying web, native and local-first

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We've been building a solution in One that makes Zero supporting server rendering, without waterfalls, and with seamless server/client handoff.

Hard lessons

PostgreSQL Rising

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I actually have implemented a multi-tenant application based on Postgres 3 years ago and we have been using it in production ever since (for paying …

Field notes

My guiding principles after 20 years of programming (2020)

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I use third party stuff for more specialized libs like image conversion and whatnot.

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