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Brett van Zuiden

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Brett van Zuiden writes Latest posts from Brettcvz.com, a personal blog at brettcvz.com about startups and business. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 30 times, most often “You need to make sure the whole thing makes sense”. It has a working feed you can follow.

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30mentions?
4HN people?
2015–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 22 in 2020

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Brett van Zuiden's personal projects pages, such as UpNext, an ePaper digital calendar for a desk. The comment cites it as a related hardware project to the e-ink dashboard 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.

The web presence of Brett van Zuiden - posts, projects, and work history.

The author on HN?

brettcvz · 1,721 karma · member since 2011

Head of Product at Once Previously at Summit Public Schools, Outschool, Clever, Filepicker.io (YC S12) Reach me at brettcvz@gmail.com http://brettcvz.com

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Most-linked posts?

  1. You need to make sure the whole thing makes sense
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-23
  2. UpNext – an ePaper digital calendar for your desk
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-03-19

What Hacker News says?

  1. I write at http://brettcvz.com - I primarily write about “teachable points of view” I’ve learned about product management and startups, along with an occasional electronics project.

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    on “Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?”
  2. Submitted UpNext – an ePaper digital calendar for your desk as a story · 269 points

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  3. This reminds me of "UpNext – an ePaper digital calendar for your desk"[1], which was posted on HN a month ago[2]. [1]: http://brettcvz.com/projects/6-upnext [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22628348

    Comment linking /projects/6-upnext

    on “Hacking Together an E-ink Dashboard”
  4. Submitted Managing product requests from customer-facing teams as a story · 46 points

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  5. “customers get features deemed most valuable by product folk” - perhaps I am misreading the intent here, but this seems like a license for product people to ignore really getting to know the customer problem. Contrary to popular SV wisdom, I believe that most customers really do know what they want, at least most of the time and in broad brushstrokes. Many of the best products I’ve worked on have come from asking cu…

    Comment linking /posts/49-finding-product-ideas-in-new-customer-expecations

    on “Managing product requests from customer-facing teams”
  6. Submitted Measure Schools on Student Growth as a story · 11 points

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  7. Submitted Reach out to people who publish as a story · 6 points

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  8. Submitted Don't use low-fidelity prototypes to test desirability as a story · 6 points

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  9. Submitted State your main point first as a story · 4 points

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  10. Submitted Motivation as Persuasive Memory as a story · 3 points

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  11. Submitted Why do people spend time learning? as a story · 2 points

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  12. Submitted Common patterns for organizing PED teams as a story · 2 points

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  13. Submitted Avoid single-pronged decision making as a story · 2 points

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  14. Submitted Time, cost, quality: choose 2 as a story · 2 points

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  15. Submitted An opinionated framework for project metrics as a story · 2 points

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  16. Submitted You need to make sure the whole thing makes sense as a story · 2 points

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  17. Submitted Feed the AI Beast as a story · 1 points

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  18. Submitted New lines of business in established companies: stages of development as a story · 1 points

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  19. Submitted Creating new lines of business in established companies as a story · 1 points

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  20. Submitted Treehouse as a story · 1 points

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  21. Submitted Create change within your locus of control as a story · 1 points

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  22. Submitted Advice for friends of struggling founders: make them feel loved as a story · 1 points

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  23. Submitted Explaining tradeoffs in terms of business impact as a story · 1 points

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  24. Submitted Customer needs first, business needs second as a story · 1 points

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  25. Submitted You need to make sure the whole thing makes sense as a story · 1 points

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  26. Submitted Three paths to a first job in Product Management as a story · 1 points

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  27. Submitted Show HN: Soundbyte – a speaker with a computer inside as a story · 1 points

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  28. Submitted Push vs. Pull in Product Development as a story · 1 points

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  29. Submitted Identify issues instead of providing solutions as a story · 1 points

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  30. Submitted You can only make time as a story · 1 points

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