Thoughts and experiences from building a small business

Cofounder at https://hunter.io, I talk about technology and entrepreneurship.

Tools distract us from building

When building a SAAS, every week comes with opportunities to use news tools. Maybe we need to add a new database or to track a new project…
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May 22
HTTPS is hurting users far away from your servers, and what to do about it

HTTPS is hurting users far away from your servers, and what to do about it

Lately, we’ve been told HTTPS is finally faster than HTTP. Mostly because of HTTP/2's multiplexing. In this post, I want to highlight an…
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Mar 10

Super simple worker pools in Go using channels

I’m sure you’ve had to write some code where you have a few hundred thousand items and need to do some work on them. Performing the jobs…
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Antoine Finkelstein
Feb 28
How to disable some of your website’s endpoints in seconds

How to disable some of your website’s endpoints in seconds

They are cases when you need to disable some endpoints of a website as fast as possible. For example, in the case were an issue on an…
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Jan 6

Lessons learned from our Security Bounty Program

A few weeks ago we launched our security bounty program. This was a great decision and we should have done it earlier. Over the last few…
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Dec 9, 2016

Getting hired as a remote worker

Over the last few months, I got to do about a hundred interviews to hire new members of our remote team. Here are the most frequent issues…
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Oct 26, 2016
Improving our freemium by better understanding the cost of support

Improving our freemium by better understanding the cost of support

Freemium models usually have a bad reputation within SaaS companies. You don’t want a user not willing to invest a few dozen dollars on…
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Antoine Finkelstein
Jun 11, 2016

Be Like Joey Tribbiani, Embrace The Fear

Entrepreneurship is awesome! Except of course when you start putting down a few numbers on paper. Suddenly, your steady income feels tough…
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Antoine Finkelstein
Apr 10, 2016

Creating a business using open data

Open Data isn’t new but as time goes by, it gets more available and its quality keeps increasing. By definition, this data is free but is…
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Antoine Finkelstein
Apr 10, 2016

Uptime target for regular SaaS

We’ve been thinking a lot lately about uptime at Email Hunter. Today, I thought I would share our thoughts regarding this issue. As context…
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Antoine Finkelstein
Apr 10, 2016

The real legal question for your startup

In France, we love to complain how Google, Airbnb or Uber aren’t French companies. Reasons are numerous but I’ll look at this issue from…
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Antoine Finkelstein
Apr 10, 2016

Postgresql’s Jsonb brings all the NOSQL you’ll ever need into Rails

If you ever had a project in which data to save to your database would come in all shapes and size you certainly had this dilema : Should I…
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Antoine Finkelstein
Apr 10, 2016

Worker Protection Isn’t A One Size Fits All

Legislation surrounding worker protection keeps being added here in France. The idea is that workers rights should increase over time. But…
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Antoine Finkelstein
Apr 10, 2016

Why We Don’t Offer Live Support

At the start of Email Hunter, we always offered a solution for users wanting some support or information right away. It provided quick…
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Antoine Finkelstein
Apr 10, 2016
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