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Brandon Trebitowski
Personal blog · brandontreb.comprogrammingstartupscareer
Brandon Trebitowski's personal blog at brandontreb.com covers programming, startups and career. Since 2010, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “What I Learned In My First Year Of iOS Consulting”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread about becoming a software consultant, where one commenter points to a post on lessons from his first year of iOS consulting. Only a bare link is given, so the post is described by its title.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- What I Learned In My First Year Of iOS Consulting2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-07
What Hacker News says?
I think this is the post: http://brandontreb.com/learned-first-year-ios-consulting
Comment linking /learned-first-year-ios-consulting
on “Becoming A Software Consultant: My Backstory”Submitted Becoming A Software Consultant: My Backstory as a story · 119 points
HN discussionThat's a great point. I couldn't agree more. I should have given some more intro, however if you follow the link at the top of the post, it provides much more context. http://brandontreb.com/what-i-learned-in-my-first-month-bein... On my iphone right now, but if I get a chance I'm happy to post more backstory here in the comments later today. Thanks for the feedback!
Comment linking /what-i-learned-in-my-first-month-being-a-contract-ios-developer
on “What I Learned In My First Year Of iOS Consulting”Submitted What I Learned In My First Year Of iOS Consulting as a story · 87 points
HN discussionSubmitted WordPress To Jekyll And Back Again as a story · 48 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tools of the Trade: What Tools I Use for iOS Consulting as a story · 27 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I Learned in My First Month Being a Contract iOS Developer as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Being An Indie Software Developer And Signing NDAs as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I Went Back To Jekyll - Also Rackspace Sucks as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Amazon - A Terrible Solution To A Huge Problem as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Technology + Fitness = Love as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Importance of Side Projects as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Changing Your Life In 2011 - Fitness Hacks as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tether Your iPhone Without Jailbreaking (Or Paying For It) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: AppBlogger - A Tool For iOS Bloggers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Journey To Create The inPulseNotifier For Jailbroken iPhones as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Lose $300K in One Conversation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted MetaWatch Announces iOS Support - Still Can't Compete With Pebble as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your App Idea Most Likely Falls into One of Three Categories as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software Consultant Contracts: Fixed Bid VS Time and Materials as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted IPhone Programming Tutorial: Creating An Image Gallery Like Over – Part 1 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Autonomous Steering Behaviors In Corona SDK Games as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Case of the Mondays as a story · 1 points
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