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Re:Moltbook on Friday January 30, 2026 @01:24PM (#46827954)
Matrix is not far.
Re:macOS Tips and Tricks (2022) on Friday February 28, 2025 @12:37AM (#43202077)
Does anyone know of a good solution to manage menubar on Mac? Have M2 Pro with a notch which hides many of many items and it's so difficult to access them unless I quit a few of them.

Ask HN: Why are people trading over FTX or Coinbase?

First, apologies if I don't manage to use the right crypto jargon. I am an absolute beginner in crypto and just trying to educate myself.Crypto is making news again after FTX going bust but being a beginner I fail to understand one thing. Why are people still trading over central exchanges? Wasn't it the very same philosophy on which bitcoin and blockchain in general was founded, that we don't...

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As I said, it's not about convincing someone whether my idea is good. It's a deliberate choice I am making to not have a CTO.
Do not fully agree here. You can choose not to have a tech co-founder and still make a decently successful business. Customers care only if their problem is getting solved. Rarely they care about the how part.
Wow. Sincere thanks for taking time to write this elaborate answer. This is truly useful.

The one about price (and quality) disparity is very insightful. Didn't know it could vary that much.

The app I am trying to build is not a CRUD app. To give you some hint, it's about collecting data from various sources and putting them in a nice dashboard. The data in question is decently large and it comes from several dozens of sources. Most tech guys would talk it down like a trivial technical problem which can be solved in a hackathon but it does solve a non-trival and a very important problem for my potential customers.

You are right about the mockup since it would give me a great clarity myself as in what the end result would look like.

Again, many thanks for your detailed answer.

Yes, but my concern is that the problem I am trying to solve won't make a unicorn but surely make a few million dollar business. I wonder if this would be exciting enough for a tech co-founder. What do you think?

Ask HN: Best way to build a SaaS product for a non-tech founder

I am a non-tech founder and have a compelling SAAS idea. I have validated the idea by surveying several potential customers. I am a potential customer myself. I have evaluated no-code solutions but I don't think that will solve problem for my customers.I have a budget of about $50K to spend on building the product. I suppose, I have following options - Learn to code myself and build an MVP...

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Re:Ask HN: Is Substack the New Medium? on Sunday October 09, 2022 @01:01AM (#33138402)
Same here. Wow I just realized that I wouldn't pay $5/month to medium but I am paying over $50/month to various subscriptions on substack.
Re:Talking to your customers: a disruptive Agile framework on Thursday August 18, 2022 @01:32AM (#32505667)
Extending this further. Before building a product, talk to prospects and understand the problem better.
Re:Raindrop: All-in-One Bookmark Manager on Friday June 24, 2022 @10:29PM (#31871925)
Yes. It is slow. This is precisely the reason I stopped using it.
Re:How to Draw Animals (1930) on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @02:04AM (#31663827)
Is it me only who is bothered by the fact that this "http" link from popular service blogspot, doesn't get auto-redirected to "https"?

What Is Agile?

The question sounds simple but the answer is probably not straight forward. There are thousands of books, blogs, courses, videos available on this subject, however, I still have a hard time understanding how does it work at a conceptual level. People say we can implement Agile methodology to software development to general business problems. Jeff Sutherland, Author of popular book on Agile...

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