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Redis-compatible cache and datastore for Windows(memurai.com)
6 points by stevoski 7y ago|0 comments
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by stevoski 7y ago
Looking good, Stripe. I love how you are on to things like SCA well in advance, making life easier for us merchants. Now if you’d just finally add some VAT handling to Stripe Checkout, and to Stripe overall...then us merchants in the EU wil
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by stevoski 8y ago
That’s just $50 per month? Or is there a K missing: $50K per month?
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by stevoski 8y ago
> Anxiety eats at you. No matter how good you are at keeping it at bay (I was pretty good), it will eventually catch up with you. I still don't have a good solution to that. Same feeling here. Something that works pretty well for me
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by stevoski 8y ago
10 or 15 years ago, people releasing desktop apps built on Java endured the same negativity. Meanwhile customers happily used the apps without caring about what tech was used because the apps solved problems for them. Likewise these days wi
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by stevoski 8y ago
Awesome stuff. Java programmers: if you are curious about how an SQL database works, take a look at H2's source ( https://github.com/h2database/h2database ). You can even try to fix an outstanding issue. It is illum
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by stevoski 8y ago
Stripe's "getting started" documentation, as well as this article, show us how easy it is to get started with Stripe - if you ignore the existence of taxation. The article is completely missing any mention of tax, be it sales
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by stevoski 8y ago
I’ve tried writing my own billing system on top of Stripe and PayPal. And I’ve tried using a Paddle-like service (FastSpring, to be precise.) The bookkeeping and support for my business was much easier when I used FastSpring. I believe the
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by stevoski 8y ago
Thanks for writing this. When I started my SaaS two years ago, I also found it hard to get concrete info about how to design my database scheme to handle multi-tenancy, plans, and billing. In hindsight, it all seems quite straightforward, b
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Obituary: Atta Elayyan was killed on March 15th(economist.com)
3 points by stevoski 8y ago|0 comments
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by stevoski 8y ago
If you are looking for people who discuss startups they are building without VCs and fundraising, some of us are here: https://discuss.bootstrapped.fm
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by stevoski 8y ago
Yes, exactly like memcache.
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by stevoski 8y ago
As per the article, internationalisation and localisation are harder than they seem at first. But take the time to do them right and you can outsell your competitors in certain lucrative markets. My product has many competitors. In the US,
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Thoughts on Tech Stacks for Bootstrapped Startups(jitbit.com)
2 points by stevoski 8y ago|0 comments
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An entertaining polemic against the tech industry(economist.com)
1 points by stevoski 8y ago|0 comments
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by stevoski 8y ago
I have a slightly off-topic question: what tool do you recommend for creating Entity Relationship Diagrams (also known as database models)?
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by stevoski 8y ago
What Slack did for chat and GitHub did for source control, Notion does for keeping information organised. My prediction: In five years time, most of us will be using Notion.
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by stevoski 8y ago
Great effort! Assuming the video creator is here, here's a quick tip to make the video even better: zoom in and crop. Currently you seem to be showing the entire app window. Try only showing the feature you are highlighting. This makes
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by stevoski 8y ago
For 11 years I’ve been selling a Mac app I created. It does get monotonous working on the same code base for so long. I find it unenjoyable having to update the app to keep up with modern UI trends, and to cope with changes to the OS. Thing
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by stevoski 8y ago
Can you tell us what cycle paths in Spain are on former rail trails? I live in Spain and would love to experience some of these.
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by stevoski 8y ago
Sprint was so far ahead of its time. It took many years for Sprint’s “always be saving” technique to be widely adopted by other word processors.
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by stevoski 8y ago
The onsite interview is further broken down into 5-6 interviews, according to the flowchart in the article.
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by stevoski 8y ago
Judging by the article, you need to go through a _lot_ of interviews before Stripe makes you an offer. I wonder if they miss out on whole groups of job candidates because those candidates have good job prospects that don't involve this
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by stevoski 8y ago
In a SaaS business, bug fixes can help reduce churn. A simplistic description is, "sales and marketing increase MRR, a quality product decreases churn". Often a company becomes financially viable by fixing churn.
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by stevoski 8y ago
That's a great description of the subtleties of product development, especially within a small team. Many books and articles make it seem like a simple procedure, but actually you often face decisions which will leave some people unhap
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by stevoski 8y ago
Middle East? Certainly not Lebanon. I spent a few months there as a foreigner and making friends was crazily easy, whether it was with locals or other foreigners. Whenever I was sitting in a bar or cafe, or on a bus, there was always a bett
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by stevoski 8y ago
1) I don't enjoy talking on the phone, and yet 2) I've also found that talking on the phone makes remote work much better for me.
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by stevoski 8y ago
Does anyone know if this Amazon OpenJDK includes a Windows 32-bit version? I can't find any mention of this in the docs.
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by stevoski 8y ago
FTA: > 5) The advantages of annual billing How do you encourage customers to choose annual billing?
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by stevoski 8y ago
> I live in Europe, and find it weird that people can consider the week to start on Sunday. You are almost certainly neither Portuguese nor Maltese. In these two European languages, the days of the week are literally numbered as if Sunda

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