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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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Update on Hiring Plans
Original EnglishFor example, I failed with a startup about 10 years ago and ended up at Square only because of that exact same failure.
The Programmer's Price: Want to hire a coding superstar? Call the agent
Original EnglishI started freelancing because I was working as a salaried employee at a company that was slowly dying, and I wanted to have a backup …
LinkedIn: It’s illegal to scrape our website without permission
Original EnglishThere's a reason an empty CD costs 50c but a music album costs $10.
How Postgres Makes Transactions Atomic
Original EnglishThere were however some known replication bugs in the 9.x versions that were quite nasty.
Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?
Original Englishthe last 3 months and it has finally gotten to the point where I am making more than $1000/month with more than 25 active customers …
Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs?
Original EnglishBut I haven't gotten over the deployment hump... the cost and complexity is a challenge.
Backlog size is inversely proportional to how often we talk to customers
Original EnglishThe support staff of a bank I'm customer of don't have a way to see the UI I'm using.
Introducing Stripe UK
Original EnglishWe've been using Shareit for selling software for many, many years and it's basically 4.9% as fees.
Mail-in-a-box: easy to set up modern SMTP/SMTPS server stack
Original EnglishRe "zero point of failure mail system": I also use Dovecot, and I learnt about DSync recently, although haven't played with it yet.