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Amir Khella

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Amir Khella's personal blog at blog.amirkhella.com covers startups, business and career. Since 2009, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 45 times, most often “Hacking The Ultimatum Game”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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45mentions?
7HN people?
2009–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 16 in 2011

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for posts on prototyping mobile and web mockups in Keynote and a story about launching a minimal product in three hours. Comments cite them as a how-to and an example.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Hacking The Ultimatum Game
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-06-19
  2. Prototype iPad Applications Using Apple Keynote
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-07-18
  3. How I launched a profitable minimally viable product in 3 hours
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-09-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. I was a fan of Basalmiq (it's a terrific tool), but since learning to prototype in Keynote, I've not used it. Here's something to get you started if you're a Mac user, and have Keynote: http://blog.amirkhella.com/2010/06/16/how-to-prototype-inter... I especially like using Keynote for higher-fidelity mockups, which I find is essential for mobile development...

    Comment linking /2010/06/16/how-to-prototype-interactive-ipad-applications-in-30-minutes-or-less-using-apple-keynote/

    on “Balsamiq 2.2 is here”
  2. Submitted What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Startups 4 Years Ago as a story · 377 points

    HN discussion
  3. I would guess he is not exaggerating in the terms you mention, but what it took to get him there. Reading "12 hours...$250 a day" sounds like he started from zero. He probably didn't. A while back there was this post about launching a minimally viable product in 3 hours. http://blog.amirkhella.com/2010/09/21/the-story-of-keynotopi... 3 hours and he's making money! What am I doing wrong? Nothing. Take a look around h…

    Comment linking /2010/09/21/the-story-of-keynotopia-how-i-launched-a-profitable-product-in-3-hours/

    on “Ask HN: I made $1.01 yesterday. What next?”
  4. Submitted Hacking The Status Game as a story · 309 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted How I launched a profitable minimally viable product in 3 hours as a story · 197 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted How To Die With No Regrets as a story · 136 points

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  7. Submitted What we're *really* afraid of as a story · 92 points

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  8. Submitted My four steps to the epiphany - Lessons learned from a research product as a story · 47 points

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  9. Submitted How to prototype like a pro as a story · 30 points

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  10. Submitted Is my startup idea good enough? as a story · 26 points

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  11. Submitted How To Choose Your Startup Idea as a story · 22 points

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  12. Submitted How I Launched A Profitable Product in 3 Hours – The Nuts And Bolts as a story · 11 points

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  13. Submitted So You Wanna Be an Entrepreneur? as a story · 6 points

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  14. Submitted Extreme Customer Development – A true story as a story · 4 points

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  15. Submitted 9 Lessons Learned Going from 0 to 50,000 Customers In 3 years as a story · 3 points

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  16. Submitted Don't Let Your Fire Go Out as a story · 3 points

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  17. Submitted How To Turn Failures Into A Lifetime Of Success as a story · 3 points

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  18. Submitted Should you quit your job to work on your startup idea? as a story · 3 points

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  19. Submitted Corporate Designer vs. Startup Designer as a story · 3 points

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  20. Submitted Lean requirements - Who write spec documents anymore? as a story · 3 points

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  21. Submitted Hacking the Ultimatim Game as a story · 2 points

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  22. Submitted Hacking the ultimatum game as a story · 2 points

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  23. Submitted Hacking The Ultimatum Game as a story · 2 points

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  24. Submitted How I validate and bootstrap new product ideas as a story · 2 points

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  25. Submitted Don't violate design laws, even if you're Apple as a story · 2 points

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  26. Submitted The mon(k)ey trap as a story · 2 points

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  27. Submitted Escape Velocity as a story · 2 points

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  28. Submitted Access Denied as a story · 2 points

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  29. Submitted How I Outsourced Product Development to Customers as a story · 2 points

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  30. Submitted How To Choose Your Startup Idea as a story · 2 points

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