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Alex’s Personal Website
Personal blog · alexlod.com · on HN as alex_lodstartupscareerproductivity
Alex’s Personal Website is a personal blog at alexlod.com about startups, career and productivity. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “One Year, Six Products: What I’ve Built and Learned”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Alex's posts about his web-based interface for dev-ops tasks across remote servers over SSH. The one comment here discusses the project's product differentiation, not the writing.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- One Year, Six Products: What I’ve Built and Learned2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-07-10
What Hacker News says?
Here's the promised follow-up article, One Year, Six Products: 16 Tips for New Entrepreneurs: http://alexlod.com/2012/07/11/one-year-six-products-16-tips-...
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on “One Year, Six Products: What I’ve Built and Learned”Submitted Getting Started with Android Development as a story · 99 points
HN discussionHere's the follow-up: http://alexlod.com/2012/07/11/one-year-six-products-16-tips-...
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on “One Year, Six Products: What I’ve Built and Learned”Submitted One Year, Six Products: What I’ve Built and Learned as a story · 78 points
HN discussionI applaud what you're trying to do, but I think you hit the nail on the head in your last sentence. You need more iteration in order to find something that sets you apart. I wouldn't contribute to this kickstarter because I don't see anything here that really differentiates you from your competition in a way that would make people want to pay for your service. If you missed Alex Loddengaard's "One Year, Six Products…
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on “A web-based interface for dev-op tasks across remote servers using SSH”Submitted Working at a Startup vs. a Big Company as a story · 69 points
HN discussionSubmitted One Year, Six Products: 16 Tips for New Entrepreneurs (part 2) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Bubble of Distraction and Why I’m Ready for it to Burst as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: I built a fake product (BreakStreak.com) as a lean startup experiment as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 6 Howto Steps for Raising Money for Your Startup as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How-To Get Started with Mindfulness Meditation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thinking about founding a startup? Don't rush into a founding team. as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Seed vs. Venture Capital: Explained as a story · 1 points
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