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Alex Paval

Personal blog · noobmaker.substack.comstartupsbusiness

Alex Paval writes Noob Maker, a personal blog at noobmaker.substack.com about startups and business. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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9mentions?
4HN people?
2020–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2020

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked only as a Substack homepage in a thread listing great programmer blogs. The comments say nothing about the writing, so the topics of its posts cannot be determined from them.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

For makers and their haters.

Most-linked posts?

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    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. EDIT: Paste this hacky snippet into your browser's console to save all of the links into your clipboard: (() => { let result = [...document.querySelectorAll('td a')] .map((link) => link && !link.href.includes('ycombinator') && !link.href.includes('javascript:void') ? link.href : '' ) .filter(Boolean); result = [...new Set(result)]; result.sort(); copy(result.join('\n\n')); })(); Just to help, here's a compiled-list…

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    on “Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers”
  2. Submitted A mind-map of cryptocurrencies for crypto noobs as a story · 30 points

    HN discussion
  3. https://noobmaker.substack.com/

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    on “Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers”
  4. Submitted How to create a one-liner for you and your business as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Take control over your habits using these perspectives as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted How and where to find your ideal customer as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted What’s Your One-Liner? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted A quick NFT overview for noobs as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted How to start researching any business idea as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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