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So what email address should I get that will most reduce my risk of crashing my car?

The point here is not what the advantage of phone support is but to provide the service personally. You can outsource anything, but if you read the article, the learnings you get f…

The article is clearly written by someone who has a vested interest in the incumbents who are now up against Uber and Amazon. Uber burns cash like pretty much any funded startup bu…

Me and my co-founder refined our pitching skills somewhat. Overall I wouldn't say it's worth it.

https://www.producthunt.com/

Not generally a good idea, but please post a link to the product to get more specific feedback. A product is not a business yet. Before you sink money into a launch you'd want to g…

Work out which company you would actually want to work with (ask questions) and just do do their friggin puzzles if that's what gets you in the door.

Does orthodontics really fall under cranial deformation? ;-)

This is more than ironic: statuspage.io was affected last week by the Amazon DNS outage! That doesn't seem to get a mention.

There is no way you can know exactly that two workers and two dynos are right. Just start off with Heroku. Maybe even pay for a worker or an extra dyno. Remember you can run multip…

According to that article, the 40 comment penalty is applied to all posts. Putting "Show HN" in your post probably didn't change that. The algorithm for the front page favours newe…

The .html 'exception' shouldn't really be that surprising. How many web servers do you know that run on MS-DOS?

No need for status symbols anymore. If you want people to know you are rich, just post it on Facebook.

Take any notion of "beta" off your site. You want people to sign up thinking it's production ready and start test and improving your funnel based on a trickle feed of new visitors.…

Any piece of data that's out there, currently private or not, will ultimately become available to anyone as long as they can find it. This is a tool which speeds up that process. C…

At 23 I was still at Uni, a nerd failing at all non-nerdy subjects, no girlfriend, no money, no car. I had hardly any ambitions and failure was the norm I set for myself. But I was…

She's clearly serious about this. From her blog: * 6. LinkedIn. Please do NOT shop through LinkedIn for all the important sounding senior practitioners in town, and ask them to con…

You should never have run "Trojan Horse.exe"

Clearly not a good question to ask on HN... surprised bitcoin hasn't been mentioned yet :-) edit: it has now. I rest my case.

If I was Zendesk, I would do exactly that, fight your trademark. Not that their objections will necessarily hold up. You could arguably defend it, but why bother? If you say you ar…