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Company blog · blog.sendsonar.combusinessstartups

Sonar is the company blog at blog.sendsonar.com, writing about business and startups. Since 2015, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Show HN: Add “Magic” to Your Business”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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15mentions?
6HN people?
2015–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 13 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Sonar's blog for posts on SMS and community, such as a piece on how Mayvenn thinks about community and SMS, and an article on how easily Magic could be cloned.

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?

  1. Show HN: Add “Magic” to Your Business
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-02-23

What Hacker News says?

  1. Hey this is Neeharika from Sonar. We spoke with Taylor Wang, COO of Mayvenn yesterday and wanted to share a post on how Mayvenn's thinks about community and SMS: http://blog.sendsonar.com/2015/06/19/how-mayvenn-grew-its-co...

    Comment linking /2015/06/19/how-mayvenn-grew-its-community-using-sms

    on “Who Do You Trust?”
  2. Submitted Show HN: Add “Magic” to Your Business as a story · 84 points

    HN discussion
  3. > At the least, Magic is not as easily cloneable. That just means the clones will be even worse. Interesting you say that, as this article posted as a Show HN the other day was derided as having exposed how easy it would be to clone Magic. http://blog.sendsonar.com/2015/02/23/add-magic-to-your-busin...

    Comment linking /2015/02/23/add-magic-to-your-business/

    on “Magic: The Story of an Accidentally Founded, Wildly Viral Startup”
  4. Submitted How Mayvenn built community and raised from A16Z as a story · 29 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Show HN: Accepting Payments Over SMS with Stripe as a story · 22 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Improved data bindings for ReactJS as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Effective ECommerce: How Bohemian Guitars Increased Mobile Sales as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Going from MVP to Product Hunt Launch as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Susie, a food delivery service that uses SMS for everything. as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted The text-only revolution and why you need to pay attention as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Improve communication, morale and focus with a better weekly meeting as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted 6 Reasons Your SMS Strategy Is Failing as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted 3 Ways Your Team Can Use SMS to Close More Sales as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted 6 Hiring Mistakes We’ve Made as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Text-First Services – How to take advantage of SMS as a channel as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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