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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.
Solve a problem people will pay for before expanding the team.
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Ask HN: Small product, single founder success stories?
Original EnglishI've been running the service for 2.5 years, and I'm up to about 900 paying customers.
Ask HN: Your Passive Income Suggestions?
Original EnglishI launched my Amazon affiliate site about a year-and-a-half ago and its earnings have increased by about $100 per month with December being the first …
Preferring throwaway code over design docs
Original EnglishWe had to build and launch something by a deadline in order to avoid renewing a contract that would have cost $x mil.
Browser AI: stepwise control makes failures easier to inspect
Stagehand’s creators added AI operations to Playwright rather than delegating the entire workflow to an autonomous agent.
Retain visibility and control at each step.
Amazon guts affiliate program, cuts fees for electronics in half
Original English2.5% of revenue sounds unbelievably cheap to generate an actual trackable order.
Ask HN: When do you know your startup has failed?
Original EnglishI've run one startup that failed outright after 18 months with 10 grand still left in the bank, and I've run one that scraped through …
German developer guilty of 'hacking' for exposing hardcoded credentials in app
Original EnglishI literally spent 4 hours this morning working around a vendor API bug.
How to drive away your best engineers
Original English[1] Although I'd used makefiles to compile tools for over a decade, I never learned the syntax.
Dear Programmer, I have an idea
Original EnglishSo I worked with programmers who are partners on the project, ie they get paid much less than they would in a normal gig, but …