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Andrew Askins

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Andrew Askins's personal blog at krit.com covers startups, business and career. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-22, and you can follow it by feed.

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2014–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2014

Andrew Askins is a founder and consultant. He writes about startups, mental health, and leading a full life.

Most-linked posts?

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    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-14

What Hacker News says?

  1. I launched Krit, http://krit.com/ , in 2011, but struggled to gain traction in South Africa. I'm not sure how to feel about Square Feedback.

    Comment linking /

    on “Introducing Square Feedback”
  2. Submitted Using customer feedback and years of data to launch a swoon-worthy product as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. A word of caution - there are big companies that always shop around for support contracts regularly, they always need 3 bids, before they justify re-upping with their current support contract. This is one reason we don't do support... Large companies also do a lot of due diligence on support models. So there's a difference between Mongo Inc and the two freelancers . I would suggest you think of your offering as a pr…

    Comment linking /blog/how-to-productize-your-consulting-business

    on “Ask HN: Sold any support contracts for open source?”
  4. Submitted The Recession-Proof Playbook as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. I'm neither, but while roaming I forked to our profile and saw you are doing this: http://krit.com/ What is that pricing in US dollars? That is a great idea you should bring it to the US.

    Comment linking /

    on “Poll: As a founder, what is your salary?”

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