A couple of tiny hardware side projects that aren't counting on thousands of users anytime soon

Depends on culture. I've been developing technology for customers for some time as a freelancer, without many contracts/regulations etc. Worked fine.

I'd love to see some research done on this. Please share any of your findings here

I've been following along (not from the beginning) but for some time now. Glad to see 1.0 finally here. congrats

It seems that after the Zack-Trial, they're experimenting with different business models though. Dating.. cryptocurrencies.

educating yourself as a CTO is a must

I've been super happy with http://www.fairpixels.pro (had seen them around here a few times). I've been engineering my way up, but never realised how key design can be in converting traffic into users and turning users into fans.

I suppose if growth hacking via false social proof is a service you're in need of, that's your team. I recall way too many Ask HN threads with that link in one of the first or only comments recently.

2/5 comments by OP are plugging this site.

Nobody minds you plugging your service, just don't pretend you are a customer.

That link was dead for me. Is it this one? https://www.fairpixels.co/pro/

I think the best way is how HN is. In fact, I wish more websites had this text only approach. Came across this fantastic redesign of a conceptual text-only TechCrunch: https://hackernoon.com/redesigning-techcrunch-1ecae542e6af

Somebody please make that!