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

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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.

Business ideas

Ask HN: Where can I buy real software companies?

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I've got an extension for a CMS that stably makes 6-figures profit for past 3 years.

Tool picks

Small claims court became Meta's customer service hotline

Original English

I have run a couple of support operations.

Hard lessons

Software Engineering ≠ Computer Science (2009)

Original English

There are solutions, but by living in a dream, you are working around the bug instead of fixing it.

Tool picks

Stop whining and start hiring remote workers

Original English

I spent 7 months last year traveling internationally, and was often out-of-touch and 12+ hours ahead of my business and customers.

Tool picks

Freeciv – open-source Civilization clone

Original English

So we worked with the Blender Foundation instead, and got much better support, collaboration on new features, etc.

Business ideas

Announcing Topaz: A New Ruby

Original English

Even if 50% of your app is spent hitting DB, you have opportunity to speed up the other 50% and it's likely far easier.

Business ideas

Make Money Online: Documenting 10 Years of Failure

Original English

But after 5 years the parent company of our client killed the entire affiliate program.

Tool picks

Show HN: A Visual IDE for React

Original English

I use a vue dev server daily (both with webpack previously and now with the way faster vite) and it's pretty much instant.

Tool picks

Graal and Truffle could accelerate programming language design

Original English

I wouldn't use Rust for the syntax; I'd use it because I want properties like complete memory safety, manual control over memory allocation, easy (and …

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