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Bill Prin's personal blog at billprin.com covers programming and startups. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “I Ditched Django for NextJS”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-04-22, and you can follow it by feed.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2022

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waprin · 1,590 karma · member since 2015

indie hacker. former SWE at google, thumbtack, pinterest, many small startups working on AI engineering content: aiengineering.report personal site: billprin.com plus poker app: www.livepokertheory.com email me , waprin @ gmail.com

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  1. I Ditched Django for NextJS
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-10-30
  2. Why I Ditched Django for NextJS
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-20

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  1. I built a website that was super simple using server side rendering using Django. Then I got a bunch of feature requests that made it less simple and the client-side javascript started getting crazy spaghetti code. I actually somewhat knew React before this project but besides not wanting to overcomplicate things I was hesitant because I didn't like pure client-side rendering. Then I learned NextJS makes it easy to…

    Comment linking /articles/why-i-ditched-django-for-nextjs

    on “Don’t Build a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front End (2021)”
  2. Submitted Real Problems That Web3 Solves, Part 1 as a story · 168 points

    HN discussion
  3. Thanks! I'm in a similar boat. I'm not lecturing anyone having learned from success but having learned from failure. I just spent an entire year spent building software products and they almost all failed. I wrote a long retro (too long, not edited, more for myself than for others, but if curious: https://www.billprin.com/notes/one-year-retro ) and the #1 cause of failure I wrote down was not doing enough talking to…

    Comment linking /notes/one-year-retro

    on “You do need a technical co-founder”
  4. Submitted Real Problems That Web3 Solves, Part 2 as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted I Ditched Django for NextJS as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Just Say No to Unreasonable On-Call as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Why I Ditched Django for NextJS as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted I Ditched Django for NextJS as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted How to Stop Worrying and Love Front End Dev as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted How to Use MCP to Let Cursor See and Fix Browser Console Errors as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Why I Ditched Django for NextJS as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted The Simplest App That Makes Money as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted 12-8 Intermittent Fasting for Social Media as a story · 1 points

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