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natanavraon Fonable: International calls from the browser, no subscription

Shameless plug: try calltuv, email, apple, google login all supported and has cheap calls

natanavraon How we improved our MongoDB write throughput with SQS

We store a lot of historical data that we periodically go back to, reaching 500GB of storage.

Our current AWS setup costs us ~$500/month, last time I checked it's really expensive hosting with MongoDB Atlas, or any managed mongodb and would reach $3k+.

natanavraon How to build a second brain as a software developer

I do the same, just with Evernote. Either writing a summary of what I learned in a note and adding a link to the source, or clipping the whole page. I can probably write a couple of techincal books from all these notes.

natanavraon Our Story: 2 People, No Funding, $700k+ ARR in Less Than 3 Years

It’s actually 5 years, but just 3 years on the current iteration.

I think this is the first time we’re sharing information about revenue and parts of our personal story as founders of Configo / ProveSource. Configo is the name of our first product, that failed miserably. 2.5 years of countless flights, meetings, POCs and one real customer. We moved on but decided to keep the name because it didn’t really matter. Later on, Configo made sense - because we became a products (with an s) company, with ProveSource and PurpleAds being just the start.

There are countless of stories like ours and none of them are really over-night success fairytale stories. Inspired by Bill, our VP of Growth, we decided to start sharing our story: - How do you get up after 2.5 years of failure day-in and day-out? - How do 2 people (now 4 and counting) run a lean $700k/year operation? - How do we validate a product before we dive in? (there are at least 2-3 products we’ve thrown off a cliff in the last 3 years) - How do you make your first dollar? - How to juggle between multiple products? - How do you scale your team (Rework, I’m looking at you)?

This is part 1 of the story.

We’re going to be sharing more parts of our story, our next step struggles, cool “growth hacks” we tried and more.

Hopefully you gain some insights from this one

natanavraon Show HN: Find out who removed your JS from their website

Thanks for your feedback, we're currently evaluating a price model. With that said, we are going to provide a free tier, as we believe in providing value/benefit before asking for money.

natanavraon What software do you use to AB test website features?

I've been using Google Optimize for the first time a few weeks ago - easy as pie and the reports are simple but informational.