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August Flanagan
Personal blog · aflanagan.comstartupscareer
August Flanagan's personal blog at aflanagan.com covers startups and career. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “How I got back to working on my startup”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link these posts for the author's side projects: a pivot from a freemium service to Spanish slang guides, and a post asking whether a small banner-template site will make $500 a month.
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?
- How I got back to working on my startup2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-11-17
What Hacker News says?
They are back in the other game, too (lenguajero.com). See this blog post, which happens to be called "back in the game": http://aflanagan.com/back-in-the-game/ . Quote: "Instead of building something complicated that was based on our free community (i.e. a freemium service), I decided to write two guides about something I know about, and something our users care about, learning Spanish slang."
Comment linking /back-in-the-game/
on “ I'm a pregnant hacker. Please review my side project.”Submitted Show HN: Coding noob - first weekend project as a story · 69 points
HN discussionMy partner and I saw this market opportunity a couple of months ago. For a first version we came up with 9 banner templates and instead of allowing the user to update the banners themselves we do it manually within 24 hours. site: http://33banners.com/ blogpost: http://aflanagan.com/will-this-make-500-a-month/ From our experience I think your biggest challenge is going to be reaching potential customers. Best of luc…
Comment linking /will-this-make-500-a-month/
on “Ask HN - Rate my startup: Gigayo.com”Submitted What it feels like to fail as a story · 60 points
HN discussionI'm not a "professional" writer, but I do write fairly often, and am working on my own startup. I am looking for some part-time work sort of along the lines you are mentioning. What's your site/blog? You can check out my writing at http://aflanagan.com and http://blog.lenguajero.com Contact me if you want to talk more.
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on “Ask HN: Who's hiring non-developer/designer positions?”Submitted Entrepreneur vs. Small Business Owner as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSubmitted Applying lean development principles to workouts as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted The first paying customer as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I got back to working on my startup as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted My one year crash course in computer science: Semester 1 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A baby is like a startup (or a pragmatic approach to parenthood) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why not keep it simple? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's wrong with oDesk search? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Connection go as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What it means to create content. as a story · 1 points
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