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TypeScript Without TypeScript(80daystartup.com)
5 points by jdvh 5y ago|2 comments
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by jdvh 5y ago
Your competitor may have crazy momentum today, but who knows about the future. Companies with bright futures blow themselves up all the time. Startups with momentum that don’t self-destruct are likely to get acquired. VCs happy, founders ha
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by jdvh 5y ago
Kudos to those who launch. It’s always harder than you’d think. That said, I don’t understand why people go the gimmicky route the moment they want to make something commercial. Even a micro saas has to provide something of real value. You
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You Need a Moat(80daystartup.com)
3 points by jdvh 5y ago|1 comments
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Good customer support means saying you're sorry(80daystartup.com)
1 points by jdvh 5y ago|0 comments
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Your app still has to be good(80daystartup.com)
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A Paradox of Course Correction(80daystartup.com)
1 points by jdvh 5y ago|0 comments
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by jdvh 5y ago
Even encryption algorithms proven correct later turned out to be critically flawed. The legal system is such a quagmire because figuring out what is "right" in all scenarios is anything but obvious. That's how we end up with
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Where are all the software startups?(80daystartup.com)
2 points by jdvh 5y ago|0 comments
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by jdvh 5y ago
The scenario you describe hasn't happened to us. We haven't had more than a couple of minutes of unscheduled downtime in the last 10 years.
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by jdvh 5y ago
That's fair, and I'm not dogmatically opposed to the cloud. But when you have underpowered cloud machines you end up having different machines for email, for web workers, for caching, and so on. The complexity you introduce by mak
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You Don't Need the Cloud(80daystartup.com)
207 points by jdvh 5y ago|177 comments
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Always build the hard part first(80daystartup.com)
5 points by jdvh 5y ago|0 comments
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No-nonsense server architecture for group based SaaS(80daystartup.com)
1 points by jdvh 5y ago|0 comments
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by jdvh 5y ago
We've built a couple of saas businesses without any investment, as complete unknowns. It's doable, and today it's easier than it has ever been. You can go from 0 to revenue in less than 6 months. The big problem is that there
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by jdvh 6y ago
Hi! Today we're launching a full rewrite of our wiki product Papyrs. We're particularly proud of our new editor that -- in our view -- achieves an impossible blend of markdown and rich text editing that appeals to both power users
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Show HN: Papyrs – a team wiki that blends markdown and drag&drop editing(papyrs.com)
1 points by jdvh 6y ago|1 comments
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by jdvh 17y ago
> just bumping a pointer If only. You have to check for out-of-memory, and throw an exception if so. (This check can sometimes be optimized away, though). You also have to mark the size of the allocated block, so the garbage collector k