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umut

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    Comment #27233419

    Yes, very true.. But you just don't need to maintain the exploding specificity hell, instead use a declarative workflow, which is significantly easier to reason about.

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    Comment #27233303

    A viable alternative to all this is using tailwind, can't recommend it highly enough. When you pass the initial period where you feel like you're repeating yourself (1h max) it tak…

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    Comment #23630940

    I think you might be underestimating the fact that your marketing copy is a good proxy for your product commitment in the long run. I am having difficulties adding you to the short…

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    Comment #23448799

    I second this rather strongly.. The harder it gets to "stop" and clean-up shit, the quicker it gets to just lose it.. Especially relevant in environments where the authors of the w…

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    Comment #23433993

    I think your best bet is to find someone - who thinks (s)he can generate $3k/mo (essentially 2x of your target), - who has reasonable proof that this is plausible and - who cannot …

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    Comment #23300871

    Great business idea: time-shared schooling across two locations.. Spring/summer in northern places and winter in south where it is warmer, without disrupting children's schooling a…

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    Comment #22662520

    Really hope that our societies can fund some research and development to bring elasticity to health care capacity. This won't be the last time we as humans will need it, and it wil…

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    Comment #22626644

    This has no more value than being a "fun fact" (sorry for the word 'fun' in the context of a pandemic and death numbers).. a) it is something you don't have any control b) the diff…

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    Comment #21246961

    looks very unfinished to me, am i missing something?

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    Comment #19778621

    Upvote a million times!

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    Comment #18247830

    A simplified configuration flow sounds too dangerous to me. IMHO, making it easier to "configure" is not necessarily a good thing, and in this particular context, is THE source of …

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    Comment #17056614

    or maybe someone who has a certain degree of "excessively" in their "pedantic"

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    Comment #14041401

    So recursive :)

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    Comment #13240554

    Congrats! Great problem to solve, would you mind sharing some architectural decisions or technical details about how you plan to tackle scalability?

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    Ask HN: How long did it take to release your side project in 2016?

    From idea to release and first paying customer, how long did it take? What were the challenges? Encountered anything unexpected?

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    Comment #11793116

    You can try Truecaller (www.truecaller.com). This is one of the essential problems we are addressing and it works quite well for +200 million users worldwide..

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    Comment #11265734

    app users downloading the app from relevant appstores (plus some minor set of users logging in on our website with social login providers)

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    Comment #11262286

    www.truecaller.com Because 250M users!

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    Comment #11212757

    It would be cool if someone does an A/B testing over a significantly big population of users and show us the dropoffs on each version. I would love to have no password login (temp …