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Andrew Lee

Personal blog · startupandrew.com/postsstartupscareerbusiness

Andrew Lee's personal blog at startupandrew.com covers startups, career and business. Since 2018, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Startups I Want to Fund”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.

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6mentions?
4HN people?
2018–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2019

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

Why HN links it

Linked for programming posts, including one on the Firebase technical screen framed as an optimization problem, and a planner programming post that a commenter found mind-blowing.

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.

CEO at Shortwave, angel investor, and gymnast. Formerly cofounder of Firebase. Email is amazing and deserves better.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Startups I Want to Fund
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-10-02
  2. How Firebase Interviewed Software Engineers
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-09-26
  3. Pineapple Day: How I Started a Global Holiday
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-25

What Hacker News says?

  1. Pleasantly surprised to see Predrag show up as a reviewer, but at the same time not at all surprised: - The [Firebase technical screen]( https://startupandrew.com/posts/how-firebase-interviewed-sof... ) would have been much easier with something like this, as it was Just Another Optimization Problem™. Part of me wants to try it again with Picat! - He's doing other very interesting things with programming languages,…

    Comment linking /posts/how-firebase-interviewed-software-engineers/

    on “Planner programming blows my mind”
  2. Submitted Startups I Want to Fund as a story · 457 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted How Firebase Interviewed Software Engineers as a story · 247 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Pineapple Day: How I Started a Global Holiday as a story · 87 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Pineapple Day: How I Started a Global Holiday as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Startups I Want to Fund (2018) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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