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

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

Hard lessons

What happens when you stop relying on resumes

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18 months ago, the adsense revenue started to dry up, and in an effort to make some additional income, I started looking for a normal …

Tool picks

Jiff: Datetime library for Rust

Original English

We found bugs early and often, where they are easiest to diagnose and fix."

Business ideas

Creative Tim: Growing a side project into a $17k/month business

Original English

It is missing from the cost because we use a payment processor (Avangate) who is taking care of all our payments and also the affiliates …

Tool picks

Docker and Microsoft partner to drive adoption of distributed applications

Original English

They won because of BUSINESS SAVVY and LEGAL moves, not TECHNICAL MERIT, and people in the software development world (and everyone else) have paid the …

Business ideas

Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?

Original English

Turns out it's possible to make a profitable business from it but it's by no means easy.

Tool picks

Show HN: Mastra – Open-source JS agent framework, by the developers of Gatsby

Original English

instead of configuring all my MCP servers in the multiple clients I've tested out I could just add 1 server and pull in everything. …

Tool picks

Ask HN: What's your "it's not stupid if it works" story?

Original English

I implemented an enterprise data migration in javascript, running in end-user's browsers. (So no server-side node.js or such.)

Business ideas

Show HN: I made a tool to clean and convert any webpage to Markdown

Original English

We're bootstrapped and profitable with a team of 3 (plus a few contractors).

Field notes

Notepad++ v8.4.3: Unhappy Users' Edition

Original English

I've never paid you a cent, and yet I've personally made quite a bit of money from using the product.

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