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Show HN: Open-Sourcing InboxSDK (YC S11) – Build Apps in Gmail
Original EnglishWe spent an ungodly amount of time maintaining compatibility with other Gmail extensions.
Ask HN: Do we need to pay billions in fees to Stripe, Block, PayPal and Visa/MC?
Original EnglishOn the one hand, I'd rather not pay them 3% of my sales.
How to get your first 10 customers
Original EnglishI used to contact potential clients years ago and then GoDaddy marked my domain as spam and made me cough up $199. …
Htmx and Web Components: A Perfect Match
Original EnglishEvery org I've worked at since the last Rails project I worked on around 2014 has built JavaScript heavy thick clients on top of API's.
How to become a freelance web developer
Original EnglishThe most I've been ripped off for is £300, but I've some freelancing friends who are owned thousands of Pounds by various clients.
Pragtical: Practical and pragmatic code editor
Original EnglishBut, I've said before and I'll say again that entering text into files isn't usually the limiting factor of software development speed .
Startup employees don't earn more
Original Englishwe try to get as close as possible to big-company salaries, we don't expect anything beyond 40 hrs / week, 100% paid health benefits, 401k, …
Ask HN: How did you increase your UX skills?
Original EnglishIn one product I created, I worked for months to create some truly awesome clients for my backend.
Zb: An Early-Stage Build System
Original EnglishI made a conscious decision to only support content-addressed derivations in zb to simplify the build model and provide easier-to-understand guarantees to users.