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A bit! By having a non strict published_at ordering, but grouping by author, I definitely feel like a know more about the people behind their blogs!

I like the idea very much! No code available yet? :)

Great! And funny too, just posted about my personal take on the same topic: https://squeaki.sh/p/i-turned-my-website-into-my-feed-reader...

There's some real gems in this comment. > we have paid off the mortgage on our premises and are decidedly boring We too like to call us boring :) This kind of boring is so good. > …

For us it was a performance issue. We load tested DBs and servers with our real app and found out Heroku (notoriously known for being stuck in 2010) performed better then some more…

I don’t give employees (and stable freelancers/contractors) the minimum I can get away with; I give them a fair share of the profits on top of their regular salary. I’m not sure ho…

But employees get a part of the cake too! If profits are high, we all celebrate together! During 2025, 7% of the profits have been shared with our employees (and stable freelancers…

Awesome to hear, thanks for sharing man! Enjoy! :)

Not just huge companies.. lots of web agencies [1] and mid-sized businesses use us to manage their web presence, mostly for the same reason: building custom sites quickly without t…

Kudos to you! What’s your current venture, if I may ask?

> I think you're leaving a lot of money on the table 100% agree. Also, I'm completely fine with it. Money is not the end goal to me. > you’re adding existential risk to the busines…

Define “successful Italian agency” :) If breaking even every year with 20+ employees counts as successful, then yes—successful. But I think you may have a mistaken idea of the leve…

Totally! That’s the most important message. The numbers we’ve managed to achieve are beyond even the most optimistic outlook we had ten years ago, and we would have been (and were)…

> Anyway, if I had my shot again, I'm not saying I'd renounce funding. Bootstrapping for a short period to figure things out is great, but funding also creates opportunities where …

E andiamo! :)

That was one of our early fears. Wanting to continue to remain small, will we be swallowed up by larger competitors, who will devour the entire market? Turns out, it didn't happen.…

That is a really nice comment, thank you a lot

Ouch, I'm a Firefox user myself, but this one slipped! Thanks!

In general, we try to keep things extremely simple. And then we simplify some more. If you're very strict on this basic rule and apply it at every level, from the start, you can go…

ahaha, true. on the other hand, wordpress is more 20 than 15 now :)

Noted, thanks! :)

Sorry to hear. Why exactly?

infortunately not.. too low self-esteem at the time to think that would have been interesting for anyone :)