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Bill Prin
Personal blog · billprin.com/articles · on HN as waprinprogrammingstartups
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.
Bill Prin's tech , startup, entrepreneurship blog
Most-linked posts?
- I Ditched Django for NextJS3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-10-30
- Why I Ditched Django for NextJS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-20
What Hacker News says?
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)”Submitted Real Problems That Web3 Solves, Part 1 as a story · 168 points
HN discussionThanks! 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…
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on “You do need a technical co-founder”Submitted Real Problems That Web3 Solves, Part 2 as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Ditched Django for NextJS as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Just Say No to Unreasonable On-Call as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I Ditched Django for NextJS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Ditched Django for NextJS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Stop Worrying and Love Front End Dev as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Use MCP to Let Cursor See and Fix Browser Console Errors as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I Ditched Django for NextJS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Simplest App That Makes Money as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 12-8 Intermittent Fasting for Social Media as a story · 1 points
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