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Brandon Trebitowski

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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.

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23mentions?
5HN people?
2010–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2011

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?

  1. What I Learned In My First Year Of iOS Consulting
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. 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”
  2. Submitted Becoming A Software Consultant: My Backstory as a story · 119 points

    HN discussion
  3. That'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”
  4. Submitted What I Learned In My First Year Of iOS Consulting as a story · 87 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted WordPress To Jekyll And Back Again as a story · 48 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Tools of the Trade: What Tools I Use for iOS Consulting as a story · 27 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted What I Learned in My First Month Being a Contract iOS Developer as a story · 20 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Being An Indie Software Developer And Signing NDAs as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Why I Went Back To Jekyll - Also Rackspace Sucks as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Amazon - A Terrible Solution To A Huge Problem as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Technology + Fitness = Love as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted The Importance of Side Projects as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Changing Your Life In 2011 - Fitness Hacks as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Tether Your iPhone Without Jailbreaking (Or Paying For It) as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Show HN: AppBlogger - A Tool For iOS Bloggers as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted My Journey To Create The inPulseNotifier For Jailbroken iPhones as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted How to Lose $300K in One Conversation as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted MetaWatch Announces iOS Support - Still Can't Compete With Pebble as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Your App Idea Most Likely Falls into One of Three Categories as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Software Consultant Contracts: Fixed Bid VS Time and Materials as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted IPhone Programming Tutorial: Creating An Image Gallery Like Over – Part 1 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Autonomous Steering Behaviors In Corona SDK Games as a story · 1 points

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  23. Submitted Case of the Mondays as a story · 1 points

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