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2016

Antoine Finkelstein in Antoine’s blog

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 make lots of models, lots of migration and lots of column ? Should I…

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Antoine Finkelstein in Antoine’s blog

Oct 26, 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 I experienced. Most of them seem obvious, but you would be surprised how frequently they happened.

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Antoine Finkelstein in Antoine’s blog

Jun 11, 2016

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 your service. Or do you? At Email Hunter, we found that having a generous free…

Antoine Finkelstein in Antoine’s blog

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 there a way to create value and launch a sustainable business using it? For some the question is even tougher: how can we expect…

Antoine Finkelstein in Antoine’s blog

Dec 9, 2016

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 weeks, we learned some key lessons.

Money well invested

Antoine Finkelstein in Antoine’s blog

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 feedbacks and allowed us to please our users. This now isn’t possible anymore. We believe this was a good decision both for our users and…

Antoine Finkelstein in Antoine’s blog

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 the point of legal regulations. Specifically, how companies can find themselves pioneering a new sector both commercially…

Antoine Finkelstein in Antoine’s blog

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, you should know we’re running a small non-mission critical (as opposed for example to a payment platform) SaaS. We have a team of 3…

Antoine Finkelstein in Antoine’s blog

Apr 10, 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 to attain. Depending on the type of business and how ‘new’ it may be, those numbers can get quickly depressing.

Antoine Finkelstein in Antoine’s blog

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 should they?

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2017

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