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Cofounder at https://hunter.io, I talk about technology and entrepreneurship.
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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…
Antoine Finkelstein
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…
Antoine Finkelstein
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…
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…
Antoine Finkelstein
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…
Antoine Finkelstein
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…
Antoine Finkelstein
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Antoine Finkelstein
Apr 10, 2016
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