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An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud
A look inside the gray-market reseller economy that gives mainland China cheap, structured, B2B-grade access to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and beyond
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on: 2026-07-26
Your App Subscription Is Now My Weekend Project · Roberto Selbach
Random thoughts
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on: 2026-01-23
I charged $18,000 for a Static HTML Page
Not too long ago, I made a living working as a contractor where I would hop from project to project. Some were short term where I would work for a week and quickly deliver my service. Others lasted a
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on: 2026-01-05
Startup Lessons from my Piracy Website
A personal account of building HeheStreams, facing the consequences, and going to prison as a startup founder who had a piracy website.
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on: 2025-11-07
AWS Restored My Account: The Human Who Made the Difference
The untold story of how one AWS employee turned a 20-day nightmare into a lesson in corporate accountability. Sometimes all it takes is one person who actually gives a damn.
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on: 2025-08-07
freelancing: How I got clients, part 1 (7min read)
tools, tactics, troubles along the way
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on: 2025-02-25
I Attended Google's Creator Conversation Event, And It Turned Into A Funeral | GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT
I recently attended a funeral. It was called the Google Web Creator Conversation Event and took place on October 29, … Continue reading "I Attended Google’s Creator Conversation Event, And It Turned Into A Funeral"
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on: 2024-10-31
HOW TO SUCCEED IN MRBEAST PRODUCTION (leaked PDF)
Whether or not you enjoy MrBeast’s format of YouTube videos (here’s a 2022 Rolling Stone profile if you’re unfamiliar), this leaked onboarding document for new members of his production company …
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on: 2024-09-16
Breaking Down OnlyFans’ Stunning Economics
Due to UK disclosure requirements, it's possible to examine the P&L of the privately owned/controlled OnlyFans. And the results are shocking.
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on: 2024-09-13
A Post-Google World
Another Google antitrust trial starts on Monday. If Google loses, it'll be three strikes. At some point, they will give up and realize that the writing is on the wall for their current business model.
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on: 2024-09-08
Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy
Why do startups typically fail? It turns out that "avoiding those things" is already a plan for success.
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on: 2024-04-03
Lessons from my third year running a SaaS - Max Rozen
I've run this business for three years now, and I'm only just now starting to *get it*.
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on: 2024-02-24
The business of check cashing
Check cashing, as a business, is a poorly understood "alternative" financial service.
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on: 2024-01-31
Credit card debt collection
Credit card debt is the waste stream of consumer finance. The debt collection industry ends up being sordid, for complex structural and microeconomic reasons.
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on: 2023-09-13
White Noise Podcasters Are Costing Spotify $38 Million a Year
An internal document shows that white noise podcasts account for 3 million daily consumption hours on the platform
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on: 2023-08-20
How to be a Consultant, a Freelancer, or an Independent Contractor · Jacque
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on: 2023-07-18
How Microsoft sprinted to integrate OpenAI's GPT-4 into '365' suite
Building an AI assistant into every Microsoft app—from Outlook to Word to Teams—is a big job, but one the tech giant wanted to do quickly.
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on: 2023-04-06
How Spotify's podcast bet went wrong | Semafor
Inside Spotify’s turn away from podcasting, which has triggered a harsh winter for the small studios it helped support as they consolidate and lavish narrative productions wane.
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on: 2023-02-15
The 10 Best and Worst Decisions I’ve Ever Made
Today’s post is a little more personal than professional (in fact, this started off as a post for my personal blog), but there’s still plenty of overlap into entrepreneurship and crowdf…
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on: 2023-01-28
The Story behind ASINs (Amazon Standard Identification Numbers)
This post explains how Amazon replaced ISBNs with ASINs (Amazon Standard Identification Numbers) for its Catalog Database Key
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on: 2023-01-25
Netflix’s New Chapter – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Netflix waited out Blockbuster with better economics, and it’s seeking to do the same with its competitors today; the key to the company’s differentiation, though, is increasingly creat…
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on: 2023-01-23
Stripe's real pricing: a primer
Open Source Metering and Usage Based Billing API ⭐️ Consumption tracking, Subscription management, Pricing iterations, Payment orchestration & Revenue analytics - getlago/lago
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on: 2022-12-10
Why is McDonald's Considered a Real Estate Company?
The golden arches are synonymous with burgers and fries, but business people find something meatier to sink their teeth into when looking at McDonald’s ledger: the real estate.
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on: 2022-11-19
The 37signals Guide to Making Decisions
A company is essentially two things: a group of people and a collection of decisions. How those people make these decisions is the art of running a business. This guide shows how we do it.
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on: 2022-10-23
How to offer effective free trials | Upollo
More users and more revenue without needing to run 20 A/B tests
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on: 2022-08-31
Let it slide
No matter the size of the business, there'll always be an unlimited number of tasks left to do, processes left to improve, and contingencies left to plan. The work is truly never done, so regardless of how much effort is put in, you'll inevitably end the day unfinished. All you can control is what you're willing to let slide. Most days...
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on: 2022-08-23
DALL-E, the Metaverse, and Zero Marginal Content
Machine-learning generated content has major implications on the Metaverse, because it brings the marginal cost of production to zero.
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on: 2022-04-15
Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack? | Hacker News
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on: 2021-08-26
It looks like a product but is secretly a subscription
The mental minefield of capex and opex
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on: 2021-08-03
Introducing Clerk: All of user management, not just authentication
The task came with a sense of helplessness. We knew what "great" looked like, but it was impractical to build all of that functionality.
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on: 2021-02-09
Here's How I Bootstrapped a SaaS to $10k MRR
Startups are hard, bootstrapping is harder! Here's how I bootstrapped a SaaS product to $10k MRR over the course of 2 years.
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on: 2021-01-28
The $4335 Video Course Launch That Made Me Think ????? - Christoph Rumpel
One year ago, I released my first stand-alone video course called Laravel Core Adventures. Since the release, I was looking forward to writing about the experience and the numbers. Still, everything turned out differently than expected (again). It is time to reflect on one year of Laravel Core Adventures.
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on: 2020-08-13
https://amanjain.substack.com/p/how-to-validate-your-startup-idea
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on: 2020-07-24
You don't want quality time, you want garbage time
This isn't the tech you're looking for, robots in equity research, and quality time
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on: 2020-03-10
The Google Squeeze
Google, the real Aggregator, is squeezing OTAs, which acted like Aggregators while depending on Google for demand. It’s easy to say Google is being unfair, but this may be better for consumer…
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on: 2019-11-13
Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? | Hacker News
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on: 2019-10-23
GitHub stars won’t pay your rent - Kitze - Medium
It’s been a long time since I have written something here, but I don’t want to write articles for the sake of “keeping the blog alive”, screw that. Well, I finally have a story to tell. I finally…
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on: 2019-08-12
Facebook’s Privacy Cake – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement of A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking is not some dramatic pivot: it is a growth opportunity for Facebook and a challenge for regulators.
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on: 2019-03-08
Ask HN: What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage every day situatio
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on: 2018-12-03
How I’ve Attracted The First 500 Paid Users For My SaaS That Costs $5/mo
You Don’t Have To Get Covered on Large Blogs, Why Churn Rate is Surprisingly Low, Spend a Lot of Time At User Forum, etc..
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on: 2018-10-15
Invisible asymptotes — Remains of the Day
"It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle." -
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on: 2018-05-29
What I Learned From Reading Every Amazon Shareholders Letter
Insights from every Amazon Shareholder Letter dating back to 1997.
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on: 2017-10-15
The Startup Marketing Checklist
I tried dozens of side projects before starting Draft.dev, and now I’ve worked with hundreds of early-stage startups to help with marketing. So, a lot of founders ask me how to get started in marketing when your marketing budget is small and your product is new. I created this list to give people an answer […]
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on: 2017-08-07
The Guardian pulls out of Facebook’s Instant Articles and Apple News
"Our primary objective is to bring audiences to the trusted environment of the Guardian to support building deeper relationships."
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on: 2017-04-24
Leadership Principles
We use our Leadership Principles every day, whether we’re discussing ideas for new projects or deciding on the best way to solve a problem. It’s just one of the things that makes Amazon peculiar.
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on: 2017-04-24
Principles by Ray Dalio
Principles: Life & Work by Ray Dalio now available in hardcover and as an audiobook. Learn more at principles.com
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on: 2016-12-23
Jessica Hische - Client Emails Are Hard.
The portfolio and random thoughts of a crazy cat lady.
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on: 2016-12-14
Growing a Business Website: Fix the Basics First
Clear content, simple navigation, and answers to customer questions have the biggest impact on business value. Advanced technology matters much less.
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on: 2016-12-06
How Font Awesome 5 Became Kickstarter’s Most Funded Software Project | Hack
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on: 2016-11-30
CoinTent: A Sustainable Ad-Free Web – CoinTent – Medium
We started a company to help media websites a couple years ago for one simple reason: our experience with online content was broken. Advertising made the act of reading an article or watching a video…
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on: 2016-10-27
Bill Gates: He eats Big Macs for lunch and schedules every minute of his da
With $80 billion, Bill Gates is the world’s richest man.
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on: 2016-10-23
The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company
Magia Pixar este cronica plină de viaţă a istoriei şi e…
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on: 2016-09-22
Boosting Sales With Machine Learning — Xeneta — Medium
In this blog post I’ll explain how we’re making our sales process at Xeneta more effective by training a machine learning algorithm to predict the quality of our leads based upon their company…
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on: 2016-06-08
The Amazon Tax
Amazon is building a lot of businesses that look like AWS: taxes on major industries that work to everyone’s benefit. The reason, though, is that AWS is a lot like Amazon itself.
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on: 2016-03-31
I analyzed 250 SaaS pricing pages — here’s what I found
We recently had a major overhaul of our pricing and landing page and wanted to get a good idea of what a high-converting pricing page looked like. We turned to the experts.
There ...
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on: 2015-12-23
User Intelligence and Customer Communication | Intercom
Fin is the leading AI agent for customer service delivering the highest quality answers and handling the most complex queries. Employ Fin on any helpdesk or the Intercom Suite today.
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on: 2015-05-13
Felons, addicts, immigrants: This bakery will hire anyone
A socially conscious Yonkers bakery founded by a Buddhist teacher pioneers a novel "see no evil" approach to human resources -- and it works.
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on: 2015-03-07
The Problem with Music - The Baffler
How record labels use A&R flaks and impenetrable contracts to screw artists while raking in millions
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on: 2015-01-09
Ask HN: What small webapps do you know that have a large audience? | Hacker News
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on: 2014-11-02
How Google Works
Today we all live and work in the Internet Century, where technology is roiling the business landscape, and the pace of change is only accelerating.
In their new book How Google Works, Google Executive Chairman and ex-CEO Eric Schmidt and former SVP of Products Jonathan Rosenberg share the lessons they learned over the course of a decade running Google.
Covering topics including corporate culture, strategy, talent, decision-making, communication, innovation, and dealing with disruption, the authors illustrate management maxims with numerous insider anecdotes from Google’s history.
In an era when everything is speeding up, the best way for businesses to succeed is to attract smart-creative people and give them an environment where they can thrive at scale. How Google Works is a new book that explains how to do just that.
This is a visual preview of How Google Works. You can pick up a copy of the book at www.howgoogleworks.net
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on: 2014-10-16
PHP Based Scraper: How much should I pay someone/freelancer : PHP
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on: 2014-10-12