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Why Do People Dislike Basecamp? “Blank Canvas” Syndrome?
The Main Street Entrepreneur
A Few Things to Consider When Hiring an Agency
Please Don’t Be Offended, but I Think You’re an Idiot
Know Your Consumer Rights: Credit Card Minimums and Fees
The Power of Saying Yes, the Wisdom of Saying No
Two Types of Entrepreneurs: Risk Takers vs. Small Bettors
Take This Checklist and Shove It
Technology Might Not Be the Core Challenge for a Digital Startup
When You Screw Up in Business Make It Right
Microsoft Excel Is Causing Great Damage to Modern Software Design
Digital Currency (Bitcoin) Is Pretty Freaking Exciting
Thinking Outside Thinking Outside the Box
Companies Can Have New Year’s Resolutions Too
Sometimes Instant Isn’t So Gratifying
If You Care About Your Data . . . $B1:$C2#?
The Art of the Long Email
Minimum Viable Product: Build, Measure, Repeat
No Rest for the Small Business Owner
How We Shaved 200+ Milliseconds Off Our Response Times
B2B Is Bi-Curious But Unwilling to Admit It
My Crazy Excuse for Not Focusing on My Core Products
Re:What is your prefered VPS host?
on Thursday July 25, 2013 @11:12PM (#6106350)
At Cloudmanic Labs (http://cloudmanic.com) we use Linode for production stuff. Mainly it is worth the extra money to give our customers even a few milliseconds faster response times.
Our apps make a fair amount of concurrent calls to the server. So the 8 cores at Linode really helps.
For all our non-customer production stuff we use Digital Ocean. DO is great. If your site does not have lots of concurrent connections DO is a great option.
Building a Software Product in a Month
Re:Is it OK to steal a customer?
on Saturday July 20, 2013 @12:57AM (#6074390)
Yes. You're not stealing if you provide a better service or product and convince them to switch.
Re:Ask HN: How do you manage your photos?
on Friday July 19, 2013 @02:55PM (#6072157)
http://cloudmanic.com/photomanic
I like to leverage Evernote for the storage engine. Unlike other cloud-based photo storage solutions if you stop paying for the storage you lose it. You "pay" once for lifetime storage. If you are a paid Evernote user you get 1 Gig of storage per month. Use it or lose it.
http://cloudmanic.com/blog/57/the-digital-photo-conundrum-a-...
http://cloudmanic.com/blog/58/photomanic-a-photo-gallery-for...
Yes, My company is the marker of Photomanic.