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by znq 9y ago
Most recently I'm a fan of http://devcraftweekly.com/ which some of my employees started as a side project. It's a weekly newsletter on the "Art, Craft and Lifestyle of Software Engineering" but there&#x
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by znq 9y ago
We've developed an internal tool to remotely access iOS and Android log files (NSLog and logcat). We work remotely, so we always had issues debugging problems that we couldn't reproduce. Initially it was just an internal experimen
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Why You Should Work on Your Business, Not in Your Business(bugfender.com)
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by znq 9y ago
Don't want to hi-jack the article, but we've built Bugfender using Go. The problem is, we thought this is an internal (experimental) project and so Go (as a new language) would be fun to try out. But then Bugfender started to take
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Ask HN: Any developers want to help with a super quick 5-Second-Test?
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by znq 9y ago
Bugfender is part of Mobile Jazz, a service company that we've built over the past 5 years running with a 20 people team. Our products (e.g. Bugfender, Localname, etc.) are a more recent endeavor, although growing quickly as well and c
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by znq 9y ago
We do, have a look here: https://mobilejazz.com/blog/our-ceo-stefan-klumpps-interview...
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Got it! So I'd stay we've two groups of people in the company: those that like the freedom to spend it at home and those that like the freedom to go traveling. To answer your question: the retreats we offer are voluntary so not ev
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by znq 9y ago
Actually yes :-) http://mobilejazz.com/jobs
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+1 this is exactly how we did it. Not that any of that was planned, but it worked out quite well for us. Although now we're struggling with that every business is struggling that makes the switch from services to products: the need to
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by znq 9y ago
We're using Optimizely for that. We'll look into it and see how easily we could put it inside the content or at least at the bottom. Thanks for the constructive feedback :-)
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> many points in the article make it clear that you are directly comparing lifestyle to a startup and saying that a startup is inferior True. The whole point was to compare the two. And that one comes out better than the other is from my
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by znq 9y ago
Interesting point. We actually had set up the HN discount long time ago for the whole site. But I do get your point that it makes this look a bit scammy. Thanks for answering and pointing this out.
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Minus the "interesting problems" for many people.
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by znq 9y ago
Very well put! I see it exactly the same way :-)
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Genuine question: how do you know the article is empty if you haven't even read 20% of it?
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I'd also argue that a small business is just a business where the goal is to provide goods or services to customers and work to employees, whereas a lifestyle business has a strong focus on creating and maintaining a good work-life bal
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Author here. Not sure if you are addressing this article in particular, but it was not my intention to describe "the one way", but rather to show how we do things and share it with the world. Also IMHO sharing a way of doing thing
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by znq 9y ago
I guess it means whatever is important to you: for some it means going surfing in the morning, for others skiing in the afternoon and for some it is as simple as spending more time with your friends and family.
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by znq 9y ago
I personally do not have kids yet, but some of our employees have kids and even newborn babies. One of them just came back from a trip to Norway. It's all doable and probably less of a problem than people think :-)
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by znq 9y ago
Totally agree. It's a very personal thing. For us at Mobile Jazz it means to work on technical challenges, while at the same time working on "startup-like products" (e.g. Bugfender or Localname), while not having any pressure
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by znq 9y ago
Just in case people are more interested in the details of the business we run, Indie Hackers recently ran an interview with us https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/bugfender
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by znq 9y ago
Author here. For us it means optimizing for happiness instead of profit. More practically speaking what we do is ensuring everyone has a sufficient base salary, but then also participates in a quarterly bonus program (profit sharing). But t
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by znq 9y ago
Author here. The author doesn't think that for everyone. But for himself and the people working with him :-) But I do get your point.
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Author here. Sorry for that. We didn't expect this to go #1 on HN. We're working on scaling up this small machine hosting our blog and also providing an alternative source as a backup.
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How the NSA tracks people [video](media.ccc.de)
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From Lust to Love: How We Kept a Wordpress Site Alive When Netflix Featured Us(mobilejazz.com)
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5 Years of Bootstrapping Our Company and Why We Don't Want to Be Google(optimizingforhappiness.com)
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Debugging Advanced Sports Equipment Sensors with Bugfender(bugfender.com)
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Ask HN: Sales Strategy If the User Is Not the Customer (Buyer)
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