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

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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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Solve a problem people will pay for before expanding the team.

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Hard lessons

Ten Years of Worthless Side Projects

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I stopped caring if I failed to complete a project once my initial burst of interest disappeared - usually as I'd learned what I wanted …

Y3531432017-07
Hard lessons

Launch HN: Andi (YC W22) – Q&A based, ad-free, anti-spam search engine

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Early on we tried building a custom system using differential privacy and that failed badly, so we're trying PostHog during our alpha.

Y3521812022-03
Tool picks

Ask HN: Have you regretted making something open-source?

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So I decided to put up paid support versions ranging from $50 to $150.

Y3522142017-07
Business ideas

Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

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I browse a little, but 99% of my time spent in front of the computer is spent working on product or replying to customer emails.

Y3512862014-03
Tool picks

Paw – Advanced API tool for Mac

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I don't think $70 is expensive for good software BTW, but I just haven't been sold on the value of it so far.

Y3511272016-07
Hard lessons

Cyclotron: A web application for constructing dashboards

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It would be nice if Cyclotron had some sort of spec (particularly language agnostic) but I guess that failed hard for the above.

Y3511122016-11
Business ideas

Andy Rutledge Redesigns NYTimes.com

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We ended up constructing a 24 hour social media team.

Y3501272011-07
Hard lessons

Ask HN: How happy are you working as a programmer?

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But I started this business with $200 to my name and a high personal expense base, and ground my financial history and financial position to …

Y3495352016-02
Tool picks

Instant.io – Streaming file transfer over WebTorrent

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But the fact is that with the speed of today’s internet connections, the user is going to finish fully downloading the torrent in a fraction …

Y349672016-09

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