Ask HN: How many of you are employed, self-taught SWEs? 21 by pksebben | 2 comments< I'm super interested in knowing things like: - Why did you get into the field? What did you focus on at first? - What are you doing at your job? Is it everything you dreamed of and more? - How did you break that first-job barrier? - What were you doing before this? - Any tips for the rest of us? Appreciate your response in advance! Keep hacking!
Ask HN: Has anyone built a SaaS for local municipalities? 8 by jokull | 3 comments< I'm building an aggregator for building permits and planning meeting notes. My business model is to sell alerts based on coordinates and/or search terms. Would love to hear from anyone bootstrapped selling a platform/SaaS to municipalities because we're considering also selling solutions to the public sector. I assume the sales process is long?
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