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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paraschopra·2025-01-242246 points
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Solve a problem people will pay for before expanding the team.

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Business ideas

The Arc Product-Market Fit Framework

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We had a high touch service for B2B installation: we charged clients for consulting (business analysis) to configure and integrate our system.

Y347992024-04
Business ideas

House Passes Employee Stock Options Bill Aimed at Startups

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I worked at a startup who used the main excuse of no taxes paid handing out ghost options instead of normal options.

Y3472242016-09
Hard lessons

Permission to Fail

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However, these are starting to strike me as those "everyone gets a trophy" competitions where the goal is sharing the best failure stories and getting …

Y347602015-12
Hard lessons

Ask HN: What do you monitor on your servers?

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In a previous client we ran Prometheus for months, then Thanos, and eventually we implemented Victoria Metrics and everyone was happy.

Y3461862024-08
Business ideas

The EdTech Revolution Has Failed

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Had a startup in the space[0], and we only achieved commercial success once we started gaining customers outside of EdTech.

Y3465122024-11
Tool picks

Open Sourcing a Failed Startup

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I paid ~$20 for it and got up and running in a weekend.

Y3441592014-11
Field notes

Amazon QuickSight – Business Intelligence by AWS

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The thing that depresses me the most is not that BI solutions take forever to implement and cost a lot, but that clients many times …

Y3441472015-10
Tool picks

Career planning: Where do old devs go to?

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but am paid less than them - I'm not bitter about that, I'm paid well in comparison to my circumstances, but it's unlikely that there'd …

Y3443172014-10
Hard lessons

What I Learned From Fixing my Laptop's Motherboard

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we have plenty of other revenue streams), and we simply can't afford the initial $15,000 outlay for it. …

Y342812011-05

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