It's time to go spear-fishing! Our target customers are founders of early-stage B2B software companies. We just need to figure out where they hang out. Fortunately, I'm one of those founders. Where do I hang out? A few places come to mind: * Hacker News * YouTube on
Moment has a problem: we don't have enough customers. I've recently made solving this my full-time job. "But Serge, you're the CEO! Shouldn't that always have been your full-time job?" I hear you asking. Yes, but I'm a
For the last decade, I've neglected my personal relationships. I was heads down working on my company, and it always felt like taking time to socialize and talk to others was "not getting any work done". That mindset was... incredibly stupid, and it became obvious in
I built my business blind. Not "Ray Charles" blind, but "pilot flying in fog" blind. Except I didn't have any instruments. I incorporated right out of university. The business was Debuggex Inc., and the first product was a regex debugger. This was an ultra-niche
Content-defined chunking runs approximately as fast as gzip and can achieve compression ratios better than 100:1 on certain classes of data.[1] Suppose we have several webpages that frequently get updated, and we want to store every update of every page. The most naive way to do it would
High latency between miners gives an exponential advantage to miners closer to the highest concentration of compute. Unless this problem is solved, it is not possible to mine Bitcoin on multiple planets at the same time. Mining "collapses" to the single largest low-latency mining cluster. Consider the following
This article was originally published on debuggex.com Two months ago, I launched a regex tester. Why would I ever build a product around helping people with their regular expressions? The market is tiny. There are dozens of free alternatives, and only a small percentage