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Ali Griswold
Personal blog · oversharing.substack.combusinesseconomicsstartups
Ali Griswold writes Oversharing, a personal blog at oversharing.substack.com about business, economics and startups. Since 2019, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Shared scooters don't last long”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Ali Griswold's Substack mainly for its analysis of shared-scooter economics, such as why Bird and Lime lose money per scooter. One commenter also names it as good Substack writing to follow.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
More than you wanted to know about the sharing economy.
Most-linked posts?
- Shared scooters don't last long9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2019-02-27
What Hacker News says?
> Amazon, the company that everyone loves point to as an example of how losing money eventually makes money, lost a combined $2.8 billion over its first 17 quarters as a public company, significantly less than the $4.5 billion Uber lost in 2017. Source: https://oversharing.substack.com/p/bird-raises-prices-to-tri...
Comment linking /p/bird-raises-prices-to-trim-to-scooter
on “Uber opens at $42 per share”Submitted How to Steal a Billion as a story · 118 points
HN discussionHere are some estimates: https://oversharing.substack.com/p/shared-scooters-dont-last... These scooters are already at a fairly decent economy of production. Chinese factories are producing these in the thousands and companies are buying wholesale. The core technology (batteries especially) is expensive, full stop. I’m curious where you think they could save money in larger scales? That’s not even to mention to get…
Comment linking /p/shared-scooters-dont-last-long
on “Lime shuts in 12 markets, lays off around 100”Submitted The only acceptable rating to leave an Uber driver is 5 stars as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSomeone discovered shared scooters don't last long, and thus don't make anything even remotely approaching a profit. https://oversharing.substack.com/p/shared-scooters-dont-last...
Comment linking /p/shared-scooters-dont-last-long
on “Bird lays off up to 5% of workforce”Submitted Shared scooters don't last long as a story · 15 points
HN discussionIt looks like they are losing money per scooter [0]. I doubt the strong markets make enough to offset the losing ones. [0] https://oversharing.substack.com/p/shared-scooters-dont-last...
Comment linking /p/shared-scooters-dont-last-long
on “Bird lays off up to 5% of workforce”Submitted “Coning” AVs is part of a long tradition of tactical urbanism as a story · 13 points
HN discussion> Can anyone recommend good writing on Substack to follow? https://nathantankus.substack.com/ https://oversharing.substack.com/ https://mattstoller.substack.com/ https://sirota.substack.com/ https://gwern.substack.com/
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on “Legal Support for Substack Writers”Submitted Lyft warns it may never make any money as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shared scooters don't last long as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Instant Delivery Crash as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shared scooters don't last long as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Statistics show Bird is losing almost $300 per scooter in Louisville as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shared scooters don't last long as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bird Canada to bail out Bird Global in reverse-takeover as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What even is a tech company anymore as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Unicorn Is a Profitable Ride Hailing Company as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything I learned reading Uber’s IPO filing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shared scooters don't last long as a story · 1 points
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