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  1. Ask HN: How to find out "why does this not exist yet"?

    TL;DR: Have an idea of a product. Did some research, building it as simple as glueing together a few open source SDKs with some fine-tuning, plus some devops work, should be quick. It appears to be very valuable, and…

    3 points 2
  2. Ask HN: Why WebRTC media servers are NOT built upon webrtc.org source?

    WebRTC's "canonical" implementation is by definition the "right" one because it is directly used in the Chromium browser, which means directly or indirectly, most WebRTC users in the world. So if something else…

    2 points 1
  3. Ask HN: Why some startups are using AWS?

    Or essentially: why someone who presumably knows what he's doing, is using AWS? I understand why the clueless do, because it's so convenient and Amazon marketing power is so strong - i had clients who had no concept of…

    1 points 3
  4. Ask HN: Is there a market for a service to defeat Chinese firewall?

    Various people tell very different things about how bad things are there. Starting with scary posts like http://blog.zorinaq.com/my-experience-with-the-great-firewall-of-china/ and all the way to several people i know…

    1 points 0
  5. Ask HN: What happens when a funded startup realises it can't succeed?

    ..And still has a ton of funding left over in the bank?

    3 points 2
  6. Ask HN: What can be done about freelance sites?

    Hi! What in the existing freelance sites seem wrong to you, a problem needing solving which is a market opportunity? Now in general, this market seem to be built in a way that prevents people's progress at every stage:…

    2 points 3
  7. Ask HN: Freelance developer hit the ceiling: what to do next?

    Hi there, i've been a freelance developer on Upwork/oDesk for 7 years, and gradually i realized that my income stopped growing (some 4 years ago). I tried to do everything i could think of and yet, there was no further…

    20 points 41
  8. How do i bill for open source software?

    Hi, i have an idea of a startup which will change a lot in security field, post-Snowden. The problem is, it will only make sense if it's open source (because otherwise it can't be trusted). How do i bill for this? It is…

    5 points 6
  9. Why on freelance sites, market isn't friendly to companies, and how to fix?

    Some data points: 1) On odesk.com, when you post a job, you have a radio button 'freelancers and companies can apply' and 'only freelancers can apply'. There isn't even an option 'only companies can apply'! While IRL,…

    1 points 2
  10. Offshore developers: how do you break into U.S. market?

    The question is in the headline. When you are offshore, you are tied to job sites like www.odesk.com where you have to compete with people from low cost countries like India, which drives rates down, forming a low-cost…

    11 points 2
  11. about 1% (economist.com)

    What bugs me is how is it possible that while 1% in net worth starts with $6.9M, it is just $350K in income only a quarter of which, comes from financial assets. This implies 1.3% interest - unbelievably little. Any…

    5 points 2
  12. Any RDP-like solution for OSX?

    Tried looking around, stumbled upon iRAPP and Aqua Connect. Both are closed, commercial, pricey solutions. Both are terribly slow, no comparison to Windows RDP. Anything better around? I don't even mention OSX Lion…

    1 points 2
  13. Freelance dev market

    Hi everyone, I've been working for 5 years on oDesk.com. So far i am doing very well, but looks like i hit the limit: there is extremely little work (coding: Java, Actionscript, JS) priced over $35/h gross there, and…

    21 points 11