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Tumblr
Company blog · blog.bu.mpprogrammingstartups
Tumblr is the company blog at blog.bu.mp, writing about programming and startups. Since 2009, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Bump (YC S09) has been acquired by Google”. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog from Bump, a file-sharing app, mainly for its acquisition announcement and shutdown posts, which commenters cite when discussing Google's acquisitions and discontinued apps.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Bump (YC S09) has been acquired by Google2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-09-16
What Hacker News says?
As with all things Google, they still don't know that they both owned and killed a similar technology (Bump) 11 years ago. https://blog.bu.mp/post/61411611006/bump-google https://blog.bu.mp/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bump_(application)
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on “Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10”Submitted Bump (YC S09) has been acquired by Google as a story · 215 points
HN discussionThey celebrated 80 million installations as of 2 months ago (up from 50 million 8 months ago). http://blog.bu.mp/introducing-bump-pay-a-new-project-and-app... That's a growth rate of 5 million installs a month; if they kept up that pace, they're at 90 million installs. To put that in perspective, Instagram "only" has 50 million users. http://www.quora.com/Instagram/How-many-users-does-Instagram... More bump data her…
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on “Migrating From MongoDB To Riak At Bump”Submitted Get all the photos your friends took with you, forward and backwards in time. as a story · 63 points
HN discussionAcquisition announcement blog post from September 16, 2013: http://blog.bu.mp/post/61411611006/bump-google "Bump and Flock will continue to work as they always have for now; stay tuned for future updates." 3 and a half months later the discontinuation announcement. In retrospect the statement "stay tuned for future updates" sounds quite sinister. The casual wording makes it sound like things will work out but in act…
Comment linking /post/61411611006/bump-google
on “Bump and Flock discontinued”Submitted Bump Technologies (YC S09) Launches API as a story · 35 points
HN discussionKilled after the team was aquihired by Google. https://blog.bu.mp/post/71781606704/all-good-things
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on “What are apps that were popular in the early iPhone gens and then disappeared?”Submitted Bump and Flock discontinued as a story · 29 points
HN discussionThis reminds me of the (also defunct) Bump app. https://blog.bu.mp/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bump_(application)
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on “I Bought Friendster for $30k – Here's What I'm Doing with It”Submitted New version of Bump launches today as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted Detailed map of bumps from Bump as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted 2 Years, and 50 Million downloads later... Bump is back at YC as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted Transfer Files using Bump as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year :) - Bump Blog as a story · 5 points
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