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blossom.io
Company blog · blossom.io/blog · on HN as toshproductivitystartups
blossom.io is the company blog at blossom.io, writing about productivity and startups. Since 2011, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 61 times, most often “Blossom — Lean Product Development.”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mention blossom.io as a GitHub-enabled kanban board and point to its blog for a write-up on switching to Dart. None of the comments judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Blossom — Lean Product Development.3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-01-24
- /2 people · 17 mentions · first linked 2012-01-06
- 3 Tips for Effective Stand-Up Meetings2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-09-17
What Hacker News says?
I've been assembling a list of these lately for a book that I'm working on. ( http://startingandsustaining.com ) Some of the categories are fairly loose as some apps don't fit nicely into categorical buckets, but hopefully this is a helpful list. --Browser/Email Testing BrowserStack ( http://www.browserstack.com ) Litmus ( http://litmus.com ) --Bug/Issue Tracking BugHerd ( http://bugherd.com ) Lighthouse ( http://li…
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on “Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition”Submitted How to Hire a Product Manager as a story · 66 points
HN discussionThis is great news. If you want to see why HipChat makes sense: take a look at our integration with HipChat https://www.blossom.io/blog/2013/03/12/take-a-look-at-our-ne... If you have a product that creates more value for your customers if you integrate with HipChat this is now a no-brainer :) Revenue wise integrating was definitely worth it for us.
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on “HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer”Submitted 3 Tips for Effective Stand-Up Meetings as a story · 40 points
HN discussionAs a user of trello I fear 'being a general purpose data structure for everyone' is the wrong direction to go :( # Target Audience? When you look at who is using trello right now you will find mostly agile teams, startups, freelancers, engineers, designers who do software development. IIRC this is also the reason it originally got built. The team wanted to scratch their own itch and I think they did a good job. I li…
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on “How Trello is different”Submitted The Scarcest Resource at Startups is Management Bandwidth as a story · 35 points
HN discussionwe have sub 3% IE usage at https://www.blossom.io and most of them (56% use IE 9) so it depends on your target audience I guess :)
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on “Peity - Little charts for little projects”Submitted Bee - A Collection of lightweight Dart Web UI Components as a story · 28 points
HN discussionThe problem with SCRUM is that it is not agile. That's why we see most of the pragmatic companies adopting a kanban or scrumban approach and they see good results. I would argue that just having a kanban board during stand-up meetings and "walking the board" instead of interrogation-like status reporting is going to do wonders to team collaboration atmosphere, morale and actual productivity. You start to see and tal…
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on “Why I'm done with Scrum”Submitted The Last Responsible Moment by Jeff Atwood as a story · 10 points
HN discussionI think Blossom [1] switched to it. They had some articles on their blog about the switch [2]. [1] https://www.blossom.io/ [2] http://www.ramen.io/post/46936028144/we-are-switching-to-dar...
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on “Dart 1.5”Submitted Blossom Under the Hood: Our Tech Stack as a story · 7 points
HN discussionRegarding the usefulness of standup-meetings I've written a blog post on how we do them at Blossom: https://www.blossom.io/blog/2012/09/17/3-tips-for-quick-effe... If done well they can be a great facilitator. Just make sure it fits your culture.
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on “Standups are Not Poisonous”Submitted How to Resurrect your Customers as a story · 7 points
HN discussionIf you're interested in getting 30% off for the first 6 months on any plan @ Blossom ( https://www.blossom.io ) reach out to us at hello@blossom.io and mention "HN & Black Friday" :)
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on “Show HN: Black Friday deals for developers”Submitted Take a Look at our new HipChat Integration as a story · 5 points
HN discussionWe ( https://www.blossom.io ) are using Dart alongside JavaScript (CoffeeScript) right now. You can call JavaScript code from Dart and vice versa. https://www.dartlang.org/articles/js-dart-interop/ This was a great pragmatic stepping stone for us as we moved from a JavaScript only code base to a much saner development experience thanks to Dart. Related write-up: http://news.dartlang.org/2013/04/why-blossom-is-switch…
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on “Dart Programming Language Specification [pdf]”Submitted 3 Product Management Anti-Patterns as a story · 4 points
HN discussionwe're using SSL on a custom domain at https://www.blossom.io in the trusted tester program and it works like a charm.
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on “Google to launch Amazon, Microsoft cloud competitor at Google I/O 2012”Submitted Your Product isn’t the Product as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://www.blossom.io because we haven't implemented payment yet :D
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on “Ask HN: who started something in 2012 that didn't or won't become profitable?”Submitted The ideal Founder Duo: Product Guy & Engineer by Fred Wilson, Partner at USV as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWe're using Clojure, ClojureScript & Datomic at https://blossom.io (project tracking) https://lemmings.io (incubator w/ focus on art & artificial intelligence)
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on “Ask HN: Who's using Clojure, and to do what?”Submitted Growth Engineering 101 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFrom my POV google app engine is still the only PaaS offering that can scale the data-tier. Scaling the application instances is a lot easier and most other PaaS providers struggle with that too. I think if you look at the big picture GAE is as good as it gets at the moment and there is quite a gap to the second place when it comes to automatic scaling. Am I missing something? Disclaimer: we are very happy and excit…
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on “App Engine 1.6 out with Python 2.7, Map/Reduce in the SDK”Submitted Blossom now integrates with Slack as a story · 2 points
HN discussionRather than a rip-off I see it as an indicator that the software development industry is moving away from list-based issue tracking to visualizing the development process in a more intuitive and transparent way (cards that move through different stages) which imho makes a ton of sense. We've built https://www.blossom.io for exactly that reason. But there are many tools out there that use this visualization or a hybr…
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on “Bitbucket Cards”Submitted Building a strong Product Culture as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI was trying to find a good URL for bookmarking and adding to my RSS reader. Is https://www.blossom.io/blog.html the best one?
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on “How to Hire a Product Manager”Submitted Building a strong Product Culture by Nicholas Muldoon (Agile at Twitter) as a story · 2 points
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