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Recently, we translated the predictive power of machine learning (ML) into $1.7 million a year in infrastructure cost savings by optimizing how Dropbox generates and caches document previews. Machine learning at Dropbox already powers commonly-used features such as search , file and folder suggestions , and OCR in…
Crate.io will no longer use Elastic’s Elasticsearch as an upstream project for CrateDB and open source its entire codebase under the APLv2 with CrateDB 4.5
Startups are hard, bootstrapping is harder! Here's how I bootstrapped a SaaS product to $10k MRR over the course of 2 years.
Silicon Valley is shutting down speech loopholes. The latest target: live content
Bronze/Starter is being phased out and current customers have over a year to transition.
2021 is shaping up to be a big year for our efforts to secure your right to fix your stuff.
When we can’t trust each other, nothing works. As we participate in our communities less and less, we find it harder to feel other people are trustworthy. But if we can bring back a sense of trust in the people around us, the rewards are incredible.
Nadia Eghbal’s new book, Working In Public: the Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software, may not have been on your short list of books to read this year. It’s admittedly a nerdy topic: …
Stop chasing your feature development plan and start crafting strategic product roadmaps
I’ve spent a lot of time recently thinking about different proof-of-work mechanisms. When I say proof-of-work, I’m not talking about consensus algorithms like the ones that some crypto currencies use. I’m talking about social networks.
The International Energy Agency's World Energy Outlook 2020 report has found that, in most major countries, solar power is now cheaper than coal and gas.
You’re probably familiar with the concept of Choose Boring Technology. If you’re not, I’ll wait for you to read the excellent blog post by…
Alex Danco's Newsletter, Season 3, Episode 2
With the change of administrations comes a new website, and this morning the all-new Whitehouse.gov debuted. Like its predecessor, the site is powered by WordPress – but this version carries many differences and modern out-of-the-box features that we’re glad to see used on a site of this magnitude. Dave Amirault…
It depends on what you mean by homogeneity.
Perhaps macroeconomists should think about studying this interesting question.
Recent events have made me reflect on a few things in my life I was already thinking about for a while. Also, responses on social media have made me realize that people have strange expectations from me, and what my role in the Bitcoin Core project is.
PostHog has pivoted a lot . After 5 pivots in 6 months, we got into Y Combinator last year, pivoted again whilst we were there and have now gone…
The type of SaaS businesses that interest me the most as an indie hacker and a fan of the Stair Step Approach are the ones that plug into growing B2B platforms.
Tucows offers Domain Name Services, Fiber Internet Services and SaaS through our businesses Tucows Domains, Ting and Wavelo. We're a tech company headquartered in Toronto, Canada, making the internet better since 1993.
Escrow is a payment setup where the payer sends funds to a third party rather than directly to the payee. If certain conditions are met, the third party routes the funds to the recipient; if not, the funds get returned to the sender. Escrow is particularly useful for high value payments because the payer can rely on…
All things come to an end, even HTTP APIs. However great your API may be today, one day you'll want to release a completely new version, an improved but...
Let’s say my goal this year is to get to 10k monthly recurring revenue (MRR).
Standing athwart urban history, yelling Stop
