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From the bit of digging that I've done, it's all free tier domains that are affected. Paid tiers are not affected by this. Given that I've tested from multiple different ISPs, I th…

OP's note about Johannesburg's latency is something I've noticed over the past few weeks in particular. Our servers are hosted in South Africa, yet accessing most of our sites and …

I run an software / creative agency in South Africa (creationlabs.co.za) that works with clients ranging from tiny to large corporates. What I've found is that the direction of the…

What about doing something similar to JetBrains, where you offer the product at a significantly discounted rate to startups, rather than based on usage? You would have 1 new custom…

This looks like a fantastic solution. If there were an affordable price point, I would immediately implement this in the edtech platform that we're developing, but the price point …

This is great. Is there are a list of supported TLDs? For example, I'm not having much luck with .co.za (South African) domains.

South Africa is hardly the only country where multivitamins are common. If rationality were the only metric for decision making, I would expect homeopathy to be far less common glo…

I'm the co-founder of RecruitDoor [1], an applicant tracking system (ATS) for recruitment agencies. We're a self-funded startup, and we've been targeting South African recruitment …

Will be interesting to see how Google Hire is used by agencies, as opposed to companies sourcing their own talent. Obligatory plug: I'm the cofounder of RecruitDoor [1], an applica…

I'm looking for a solution that allows users of our SAAS webapp to edit their uploaded Microsoft Word documents within our webapp. Dropbox seems to have achieved this by integratin…

https://ipinfo.io works well. Alternatively, CloudFlare also works well if you just need the country code, which it can attach as an HTTP header to each request.

What an ingenious way to covertly distribute the Pied Piper decentralized storage app.

I can highly recommend Mail-in-a-Box [1], especially if you're looking for a solution that is secure, easy to install, and doesn't require any fiddling. You can host it on a cheap …

Unfortunately, unless you're paying for a dedicated IP address with Mailgun, their sender reputation is mostly quite bad. We are constantly having to request our account to be move…

Assuming it has an API, I would prefer to use this over a service such as Mailgun. We used to have our own mail server, but without an easy API to get deliverability details per ma…

As a South African, I can attest to the exact ads shown by the author on various site, both in incognito mode as well as during normal browsing. I have seen every one of them, and …

Currently working on RecruitDoor ( http://www.recruitdoor.com ) - recruitment software for recruitment agencies that's simple to use and looks good on the eyes. Currently only targ…

The concept of marketing to an international audience fascinates me. I head up a small web design + development agency in South Africa, and recently I've set my sights on finding i…

Google don't have their own datacenter in Africa, but they do have nodes in existing datacenters in South Africa as part of the Google Global Cache infrastructure. Whether GMail fo…

We use Sendy (using Amazon SES) to send email newsletters for some our our clients. Recently, recipients have been complaining that newsletters are landing in their spam. Does anyo…

I've been interested in using Boomerang, but after seeing this article [1] stating that they "mine user data for information" I'm put off entirely. To what extent do they mine user…

Fellow Durbanite! First one I've spotted on HN. Unfortunately Durbs is a bit sparse on the startup scene (at least using the HN definition of startups - ones with a single focus). …

Although they are a fantastic company (often seen as the Google of South Africa in terms of work conditions), calling them a "gaming" company (as they do themselves) is perhaps not…

Are there any precompiled packages for Nginx for this? Looks like an awesome project, but I'm not a huge fan of compiling from source because it makes maintainability difficult in …

Seeing this type of research really inspires me to get involved in deep learning, at least to the point where I can accomplish some sort of basic task with it. As somebody with an …