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Feel like you're fighting your editor? Like the simple act of moving code from your head to the screen takes forever? Using Vim is a good start. But are you using it as effectively…

For the owners of a small bootstrapped company, pretty much anything that doesn't increase revenue is a distraction and should be delegated to someone else, or some other company. …

There are 20-30 ruby conferences every year in the US alone. I've been to about 7. They all had > 200 attendees. Even the less-known ones tend to sell out well in advance. Freelanc…

I switched a few months ago and it's been great. I was afraid I was going to have to switch away, since we're going to be out of the country a lot next year. I'm super happy to be …

Is that $25k in revenue? Profit? Or total transactions from which you take a %? Just curious. I really like your lean approach.

Secret SaaS jiu jitsu: ditch the free plan and let your competitors deal with all the freeloaders.

You are a black box. Your brain and body take in the world as input and produce thoughts, feelings, and actions as output. Some of the most valuable knowledge you'll ever acquire i…

You are giving up too early. You can make money on this product, but you just have to be willing to spend time learning to market it. And by market I don't mean advertise. I mean, …

Seems like this article is conflating service workers with knowledge workers. Being a chauffeur isn't the same as being a designer.

http://baconbiz.com/ Amy Hoy's conference for bootstrappers is sold out. But we have an extra ticket and we're giving it away. Just tweet at us to enter. We'll put you all in an ar…

Some markets just don't self serve.

You might like Honeybadger: https://www.honeybadger.io/ Full text search, a lightning-fast drill-down UI, and advanced collaboration tools make Honeybadger the best option to manag…

I hear concerns like this a lot. It's one of the reasons we built http://honeybadger.io - The modern alternative to AB.

What does the asterisk in the title refer to? That usually means there's a footnote, but I couldn't find one. Even tried clicking on it. I'm going to say that if a startup's blog l…

It becomes non trivial to detect when they start spamming using 100s of aged accounts run through proxies. You can detect that lots of people are submitting stories to the atlantic…

Heroku isn't for apps that can't stand downtime. My experience has been that if you have 2-3 heroku apps, and you monitor them with a 3rd party tool, you'll see random "server not …

Nice affiliate site. I'd bet commission junction has some relevant offers you could promote.

The site hasn't really changed in the month since launch. It's hard to believe that's possible with 2 devs + a designer on-board. (I'm personally involved in this space, so I've be…