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9 pts 2012

Ask HN: Should I drastically increase my pricing (grandfathering included)?

#pricing

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9 pts 2012

Ask HN: What's the hardest part of doing biz dev to generate direct sales?

#community#ask-hn

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9 pts 2013

Ask HN: Freelancers, how did you find your first paying client?

#first-dollar

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9 pts 2015

Ask HN: How did you build your first real side project?

#side-project

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9 pts 2015

Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

#side-project

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9 pts 2015

Ask HN: My startup is failing, but my side project might be winning. Do I quit?

#side-project#burnout

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9 pts 2015

Ask HN: What's the longest you've worked on a side project, without finishing?

#side-project

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9 pts 2016

Ask HN: Describe the perfect side project

#side-project

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9 pts 2016

Ask HN: At what point does your side project become your job?

#side-project

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9 pts 2016

Ask HN: How to pick a side project?

#side-project

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9 pts 2021

Ask HN: What's Your Side Project?

#side-project

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9 pts 2021

Ask HN: Favorite tools for building an aesthetic UI for a side project/MVP?

#side-project

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9 pts 2021

Ask HN: I've got my first paying customer. Now what?

#revenue#first-dollar

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9 pts 2022

Ask HN: One place of work, one side project, one tech stack?

#side-project

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9 pts 2022

Ask HN: What is the hardest part of programming for you?

#community#ask-hn

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9 pts 2022

Ask HN: How to find a niche for a side project?

#side-project

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8 pts 2010

Ask HN: Does chargify's pricing make sense to you?

#pricing

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8 pts 2010

Ask HN: Alternatives to fixed-fee or time-and-materials pricing for s/w dev?

#pricing

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8 pts 2011

Ask HN: Review my side project (free iPhone game - Bullseye Factory)

#side-project

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8 pts 2012

Ask HN: Billing for atomized pricing?

#pricing

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8 pts 2012

Ask HN: How does one make a profitable side project with $1k in savings?

#revenue#side-project#burnout

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8 pts 2013

Ask HN: What are the best pricing pages you have seen?

#pricing

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8 pts 2013

Ask HN: How to drive traffic to a side project

#side-project

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8 pts 2014

Ask HN: BandMule.com – my side project

#side-project

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8 pts 2014

Ask HN: How long did your last side project take?

#side-project

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8 pts 2014

Ask HN: Successful marketing channels/forms for your startup/side project?

#side-project

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8 pts 2015

Ask HN: Best practices to kick start a new SaaS side project?

#side-project#b2b-saas

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8 pts 2015

Ask HN: Lean Legal for SaaS Side Project

#side-project#b2b-saas

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8 pts 2015

Ask HN: Have you successfully sold a side project?

#side-project

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8 pts 2015

Ask HN: Solo founder, shortlisted for incubator which needs 2 per team. Advice?

#solo-founder

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8 pts 2017

Ask HN: What do you need to launch your side project? Anything HN can do to help?

#side-project

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8 pts 2017

Ask HN: Google employees, did you get permission for a commercial side project?

#side-project

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8 pts 2018

Ask HN: Is A/B Testing your pricing considered unethical?

#pricing

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8 pts 2018

Ask HN: How do you balance side project time?

#side-project

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8 pts 2018

Ask HN: What is your profitable side project for 2018?

#revenue#side-project

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8 pts 2019

Ask HN: Sysadmins – what’s your side project?

#side-project

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8 pts 2019

Ask HN: What iOS app pricing strategy worked for you?

#pricing#mobile-app

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8 pts 2019

Ask HN: What’s the hardest part about learning and using mental models?

#burnout

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8 pts 2019

Ask HN: What to Choose for a side project? Vue, React, Angular?

#side-project#react

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8 pts 2020

Ask HN: How to launch a side project after a startup failure?

#side-project

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