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Boosted Blog
Company blog · boostedboards.posthaven.comhardwarebusiness
Boosted Blog is the company blog at boostedboards.posthaven.com, writing about hardware and business. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN links this company blog for posts about Boosted's electric skateboard. The one comment discusses the board's weight, carbon fiber design, motors and a rival team, not the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Boosted Blog
What Hacker News says?
They are on the right track weigh-wise. And it is obvious that boards should be molded out of carbon fiber and all the electronics and batteries should be inside. It is also obvious that wheels themselves should be out-runner motors. All four of them. From pure tech perspective this should be it. So Marbel team might be on the right track. I hope they also will be able to make the board actually useful. That's the b…
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on “Boosted's Electric Skateboard (YC S12)”Submitted Lithium Battery Pack Design for Boosted's Electric Skateboard as a story · 132 points
HN discussionSubmitted Drivetrain Design for Boosted's Electric Skateboard as a story · 121 points
HN discussionSubmitted Boosted delivers first boards to Kickstarter backers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Boosted Boards Technical Progress Part I: Electronics as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Technical Progress Part III: Lithium Battery as a story · 1 points
HN discussion