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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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Startups in 13 Sentences
Original EnglishI have check marks next to 8 of these, and I'm working on a 9th (ironically, #9 -- "Get ramen profitable"); but I've broken 4 …
The Marketing Behind MongoDB
Original EnglishThere may upfront cost to learning how an RDMS and SQL work in the first place, but once you're familiar with them, they'll be faster …
Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?
Original EnglishThe principle is not "could it fail" but " when it fails, how do we ensure the plane won't crash?" It's a completely different mindset.
Gpu.js – GPU Accelerated JavaScript
Original Englishbut not a hacker [edit] of the modern mold and his glory days are from 40 years ago banging out mainframe clients. …
Lost Diamonds: How our current system is failing underprivileged talent
Original EnglishI used it to try to start a business, but it failed.
Show HN: I ranked news websites by speed
Original EnglishI also use TCP clients to make HTTP requests and fetch the HTML, then I read the HTML with the text-only browser.
Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL
Original EnglishHowever, I have plans to implement a bytecode compiler, which should speed it up a bit.
A lighter headless browser: check your pages before benchmarks
Lightpanda’s early release explored reducing rendering overhead while acknowledging limited Web API coverage.
Assess performance together with success on the target workload.
Pushing back against contract demands is scary but please try anyway
Original EnglishWhen he did, it was $150 short of the reduced amount that I had expected.