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Aito Ehigie

Personal blog · aitoehigie.wordpress.com · on HN as aitoehigiestartupscareerprogramming

Aito Ehigie writes Hacking: Technology, life and business., a personal blog at aitoehigie.wordpress.com about startups, career and programming. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Building a World Class Startup (The Nigerian Story)”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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14mentions?
3HN people?
2009–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2010

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

One HN commenter points to a 2009 post by this blog, citing its final item as a good application area for an Ask HN idea. The comments say little about the writing itself.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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The author on HN?

aitoehigie · 846 karma · member since 2007

Pythonista, startup founder http://www.aitoehigie.wordpress.com http://www.twitter.com/pystar

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Building a World Class Startup (The Nigerian Story)
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-05-15

What Hacker News says?

  1. I think we already know the answer to this question. taking you O_O as an example, your new startup called Lotaar, do you think it can become a global scale startup? The problem with us Nigerians/Africans is that we do not like to scratch our own itches, 2008 here in Nigeria, social networking sites were the rave, all because facebook was just becoming huge here then. Kenya's startup scene is light years ahead of Ni…

    Comment linking /2009/05/15/building-a-world-class-startup-the-nigerian-story/

    on “Ask PG: Why do you think Africa cannot produce global scale start ups?”
  2. Submitted Why are Nigerian Hackers so smart? (Expanded) as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  3. This is a very interesting idea. Look at item 3 at the end of this posting http://aitoehigie.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/building-a-world-... from the author's blog for one good application area.

    Comment linking /2009/05/15/building-a-world-class-startup-the-nigerian-story/

    on “Ask HN: Any idea's on how to implement this?”
  4. Submitted Live in Nigeria? This is why your startup will fail. as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Malicious Voting on Hacker news et.al as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Hey you! don't you dare call me a Hacker!!! as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Why the “noise makers” among us can’t code as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted 2 reasons why you should start a startup (the Nigerian version) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted A Nigerian Hackers wish. as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Google Chrome OS and the Third world (why it will fail) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Why are nigerian hackers so smart? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Why startups in Lagos, Nigeria should not move... as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Confession of a programmer living with Aspergers syndrome as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Building a World Class Startup (The Nigerian Story) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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