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

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Business ideas

Who is living off their startup fulltime?

Original English

When I started out in 1999 my business partner and I took $1,200 and turned it into $1M (revenue) in 12 months...100% online sales.

Hard lessons

The new 501(c)(3) and the future of free software in the US

Original English

For around $1k you can find a good non-profit attorney to help.

Business ideas

Discussions with Apple regarding license agreement

Original English

As we were their main customer they ended up losing 70%+ of their revenue overnight when we switched.

Hard lessons

Root Domain Website Hosting for Amazon S3

Original English

Regardless, the 2% failure rate on that one S3 IP endpoint is definitely a little high, so I filed a support ticket (I pay for …

Hard lessons

Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy

Original English

inheritance but if I don't get funding or the site isn't making enough dough by Valentines day the site will crash and burn and then …

Field notes

Ask HN: Best current model routers for OpenWRT, DD-WRT, Tomato, etc.?

Original English

pfSense is really a good choice, I'm successfully using it for two years without any major problems on a dual-wan setup and some 50 clients.

Tool picks

Rust in the 6.2 kernel

Original English

I have made one memory safety error that escaped test in those years.

Tool picks

Asdf – language tool version manager

Original English

I used Docker to run the application using the exact same image that was deployed to production, and was able to replicate the issue.

Field notes

Flynn: open source PaaS

Original English

Experienced Flynn last year, we spent about 2 weeks making it work properly with our solution (We had a complex SaaS solution hosted on Heroku, …

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