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Does this make sense for my value proposition? I will not promote

I’ve been calculating for a while to get a good understanding of our value prop Currently, the conclusion I’m reaching is we bring back and save 50% of the labor hours spent on X tasks by every employee (firm wide) Those labor hours spent on those tasks cost 300k-1.5m USD in salaries (and every thing else in labor costs) firm wide So, does that mean, the value we bring is basically 150-750k USD worth of labor hours back to the employees (and to the firm)? And then we can charge 10-15% o...
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I will not promote - How did you get your first users without paying for ads?

Hi everyone, I’m an indie developer and I’m trying to learn how other developers got their first users without spending money on advertising. What worked best for you? Reddit TikTok Facebook Groups Instagram ASO (App Store Optimization) Blogs Word of mouth If you were launching a new mobile app today, what would be your strategy to get your first 100 or 1,000 users? Thanks for sharing your experience. [link] [comme...
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I will not promote, but how do you get marketing off the ground?

So I am starting a business, maybe, eventually, been half a year trying, anyway, how do you get people to notice you exist, honestly, I could post the cure to cancer on YouTube and get zero views or some such miracle, is it just pay to play or what? No, I am not a doctor, I just am weird, I won't say more but for the uniqueness, nothing ranks anything, and I am not posting to stuff that takes permanent right to your stuff e.g. IndieHackers, am I doing something wrong? What have you done that wor...
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Has Airbnb’s moat fundamentally changed? “I will not promote”

I’ve been thinking about how much the short term rental ecosystem has changed over the last 10 years, and I’m curious if I’m missing something. When Airbnb launched, it provided almost everything a host needed: payments, calendars, messaging, reviews, and distribution. For many hosts, Airbnb was their software stack. Today that seems different. A large percentage of professional hosts now use PMS platforms like Guesty, Hostaway, Hospitable, Lodgify, and others. Those systems increasingly...
HackerNews

Web-based cryptography is always snake oil

Article URL: https://www.devever.net/~hl/webcrypto Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48792203 Points: 78 # Comments: 88
HackerNews

Why DMARC's new "NP" tag can fail with DNSSEC

Article URL: https://dmarcwise.io/blog/dmarc-np-incompatibility-with-dnssec Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794788 Points: 31 # Comments: 12
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Installing A/UX 1.1 like it's the 90s

Article URL: https://thomasw.dev/post/aux11/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48795323 Points: 19 # Comments: 1
HackerNews

Neoengineers

Article URL: https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/neoengineers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48795986 Points: 6 # Comments: 3
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Starring the Computer

Article URL: https://www.starringthecomputer.com/computers.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48796093 Points: 93 # Comments: 28
HackerNews

Do you hate XML? (2010)

Article URL: https://sigfrid-lundberg.se/entries/2010/07/hate_xml/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48796438 Points: 22 # Comments: 29
HackerNews

Every postcard tells a story

Article URL: https://observer.co.uk/style/features/article/every-postcard-tells-a-story Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48796473 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
HackerNews

The future of Flipper Zero development

Article URL: https://blog.flipper.net/future-of-flipper-zero-development/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48796552 Points: 53 # Comments: 3
HackerNews

You need a webring

Article URL: https://shub.club/writings/2026/july/you-need-a-webring/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48796792 Points: 19 # Comments: 5
HackerNews

Small Penis Rule

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_penis_rule Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48797015 Points: 21 # Comments: 3
🌍 TheVerge

Xbox is a disaster

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the bleak state of the video game industry, follow Andrew Webster. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes on Sunday at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Microsoft closed out Summer […]
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Vizio accidentally made the best dumb TV on the market

When I first started testing Vizio's 65-inch Mini LED Quantum TV, I thought the big story was that Vizio was back and that it had a quantum-dot TV for under $398 - the cheapest on the market. Vizio's been pretty quiet since it was acquired by Walmart in 2024, so putting out a TV with […]
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How Keurig saved — and ruined — your coffee

Before Keurig, the coffee in your office was almost certainly terrible. Old, burned, made by someone who would rather poorly eyeball than properly measure. Just altogether gross. After Keurig? You could make your own coffee, a cup at a time, exactly when you needed it. The single-cup brewer was an elegant solution to an extremely […]
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The Sourdough Sidekick automates the boring bit of baking

Baking sourdough bread is inherently old-fashioned, relying on natural fermentation and wild yeast instead of the simple, predictable commercial stuff. So it might sound anathema to bring a gadget into the mix. The trick to the Sourdough Sidekick - backed and branded by King Arthur flour - is that it promises to automate the boring […]
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Infuriating Google commercial imagines the founding fathers embracing AI

"Group project, but make it 1776." That's how a new commercial for Google Workspace opens. And things only get cringier from there. The clip imagines what it would be like if the founding fathers turned to Google's collaboration tools and Gemini to help them draft the Declaration of Independence. Ben Franklin texts Thomas Jefferson to […]
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The Helm Chart Is a Platform Contract — Not a Template

Early in building our cloud infrastructure, we had a problem nobody talks about — because it happens so slowly you almost don't notice it. We had eight separate Helm charts. One for services that needed KEDA scaling. One for standard HPA. One for backends that exposed HTTP. One for workers that didn't. One for Azure Functions. One for frontends. Eight charts, all living in the same repository, all drifting apart from each other. The charts started as copies of each other. Over time each...
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10 Cool CodePen Demos (June 2026)

Sand bottle - WebGPU Remember those bottles filled with colored sand that you can find in many souvenir stores? Liam Egan created a digital version using JavaScript WebGPU API. Click to drop sand, use the arrows to tilt and shake the bottles, and relax while enjoying this sandy demo. Button State Builder Margarita shared this button builder that allows to customize a control with icons, text, color, shape... even all the behavior in the different states of the button...