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Boris Berenberg
Personal blog · nothingeasyaboutthis.com · on HN as bberenbergstartupsbusiness
Boris Berenberg writes Nothing Easy About This, a personal blog at nothingeasyaboutthis.com about startups and business. Since 2021, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “I regret selling my startup”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post is about deploying a startup, judging by its URL. The only comment cites it as a topic the commenter has also been thinking about, in a co-founder-seeking thread.
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.
Boris Berenberg
Most-linked posts?
- I regret selling my startup2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-01-16
- Request for Startup – Deploy My Startup2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-07
- Don't ask someone to file a ticket2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-08
What Hacker News says?
I love it. I wrote an RFS[0] based on a similar idea. The big value prop in my mind isn’t the single user experience but rather automated trust signals on content quality based on access by members of your network graph and their proximity. Hopefully yourself, author, and others continue to work on this idea. [0] https://www.nothingeasyaboutthis.com/replacing-google-search...
Comment linking /replacing-google-search/
on “Show HN: Librarian - Semantic Bookmark Search Using Transformers”Submitted I regret selling my startup as a story · 101 points
HN discussionA couple other people asked the same question so I wrote it up as a blog post: https://www.nothingeasyaboutthis.com/i-regret-selling-my-sta...
Comment linking /i-regret-selling-my-startup/
on “Ask HN: Who is looking for a cofounder?”Submitted Show HN: RFS – Alternative to Google Search as a story · 5 points
HN discussionWas looking through your submissions and saw you wrote about something I’ve been thinking about as well - https://www.nothingeasyaboutthis.com/deploy-my-startup/ Check out my submissions as well, I’m in NY too.
Comment linking /deploy-my-startup/
on “Ask HN: Co-Founder? Seeking Co-Founder?”Submitted Don't ask someone to file a ticket as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://www.nothingeasyaboutthis.com/
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Request for Startup – Deploy My Startup as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYes there is a risk of this. But, with modern tooling, you don't need to do this to accomplish the same goals. It's not hard to figure out the high level approach of what someone else is doing. It's not hard to figure out a significant number of their customers. There are entire companies that exist to answer these questions for you. Ultimately, if you're looking to sell your company, you will have to trust the acqu…
Comment linking /lessons-from-selling-a-bootstrapped-company-to-a-pe-backed-company/
on “Gitlab's Startup Acquisition Process”Submitted Don't ask someone to file a ticket as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vibe coding is a moving target (so don't marry the tool) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I regret selling my company as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why is a mood tracker from 2016 still the best? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion