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The closest thing i can think of is ngnix - if i remember correctly, cloudflare built their business on top of ngnix in early days “Just” run ngnix on your own servers from different geo locations. ng…

i’ve been using django/postgres for over a decade. if it were 5 years ago, i’d use django/postgres for every project. but recently i would use cloudflare pages, r2, d1, zero trust… in many c…

there are way more small teams (1~10 fte) in software world than people expect, but they don’t make enough money to be on such list. still, their revenue might be USD $1m/enployee. good for indiv…

op here. I've been looking for affordable hosting solution to serve multimedia files, e.g., podcast audio, which is typically the biggest part of cost for hosting. Cloudflare R2 is an attractive …

As a customer, I do hate subscription for everything... But as an entrepreneur, I think subscription revenue is a good business model to support the ongoing development of a business. To find a balanc…

I resonate with everything said in the post based on my experience building my own projects over the past decade. I'd say that indie hackers don't need to feel pressured to build in public. …

Future of knowledge work [0]: 1. 5-hour work day, not pretending busy work for 8 or even 12 full hours (eg, 996 in China tech corps) Knowledge work, especially creative work, is just different from ha…

> Who is Zhang Yitang? > Born in 1955, Zhang could not attend school and taught himself mathematics at the age of 11. He worked in the fields and factories for several years to make his way to P…

A trend I've seen on HN over past few years is that people love showing off how they are able to save money by spending more of their own time, especially on infra/cloud things - if you calc…

DocuSign did ~$2.4B annual revenue [1]. So each employee generates ~$320k annual revenue ($2.4B / 7,400), which sounds about right. SaaS companies typically do low $100,000s per employee per year…

Thanks for the writeup! It works smoothly on my M1 Macbook Pro! A few days ago, I tried Stable Diffusion code and was not able to get it work :( Then I gave up... Today, following steps in this blog p…

Is this supposed to be like RunKit [1], but for many different languages? Our Podcast API product [2] uses RunKit to provide "run node.js code right on our API docs web page". RunKit has bee…

* Making money from your own project is bad. You shouldn't put ads or charge a SaaS fee from your own project / startup / small business. But it's okay to be well paid by a FAANG a…

One of my most favorite book. The author, Ray Huang, got his bachelor’s degree in USA at age 36.

I listen to a lot of podcast episodes (over 5,000 in the past 5 years [1]), but I don’t subscribe to podcasts. The way I listen to podcasts is similar to how I consume web contents: Search by topics&#…

From Hacker News or Techcrunch, it seems that engineers are creating exciting new software projects everyday, using exciting new technologies. But in reality, most engineering time in the world is spe…

This kind of happens in the podcast world as well. Many people/companies create fake podcasts and submit to all podcast directories / apps. The main purpose is to do blackhat SEO - links in …

These two - 1) The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20985875 (Not posted by myself :) 2) Podcast API - https:&#x…