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Alistair Croll

Personal blog · solveforinteresting.comstartupsbusinessai

Alistair Croll's personal blog at solveforinteresting.com covers startups, business and ai. Since 2012, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Inbox is the Trojan Horse for your personal AI”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-21, and you can follow it by feed.

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11mentions?
9HN people?
2012–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2012

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog's argument that email is one of the last services that purely distributes content, unshaped by algorithms or monetization, unlike social feeds and search results.

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.

Writer, speaker, and entrepreneur exploring subversive innovation, digital transformation, and what comes next. Author of Lean Analytics and Just Evil Enough. Chair of Startupfest and FWD50.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Inbox is the Trojan Horse for your personal AI
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-02-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. kevinwong · 2016-02-23
    Email has been one of the last holdouts of "services that purely distribute", in an era where Facebook, Twitter, search results, job postings are all tailored/processed by an algorithm before reaching the end user. In addition, of the things that dominate the finite amount of our "attention" (FB/IG/Google), only email hasn't been fully monetized. When Inbox first launched, there was a lot of discussion on the end of…

    Comment linking /inbox-is-the-trojan-horse-for-your-personal-ai/

    on “Gmail Ending? Google Starts Migrating Users”
  2. fwdbureau · 2016-02-07

    Submitted Inbox is the Trojan Horse for your personal AI as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  3. rmason · 2013-02-21

    Submitted What makes a great startup? as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  4. jonny_eh · 2012-03-09

    Submitted The Three Kinds of Startup CEOs as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. keithba · 2016-02-08

    Submitted Google Inbox is the trojan horse for your personal AI as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. gozmike · 2013-04-12

    Submitted You'll be Tagged as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. julien_c · 2013-02-19

    Submitted Book as API as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. jonny_eh · 2012-03-02

    Submitted Loose Ears End Careers as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. mokeefe · 2013-10-18

    Submitted Solve for Interesting as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. arocks · 2012-07-06

    Submitted Facebook's Rocks and Hard Places as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. jonny_eh · 2012-03-22

    Submitted The four letters that run The Valley as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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