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Canny Blog
Company blog · canny.io/blog · on HN as a13nstartupsbusiness
Canny Blog is the company blog at canny.io, writing about startups and business. Since 2017, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 134 times, most often “Canny: Customer Feedback Management Tool”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (15) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly mention canny.io as a customer feedback and roadmap tool in SaaS and product threads. One commenter praises a post by its founder on Y Combinator's Startup School.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 15 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Canny's AI-powered customer feedback platform captures, analyzes, and prioritizes feedback to help you build what drives revenue.
Most-linked posts?
- Canny: Customer Feedback Management Tool7 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2017-04-17
- Show HN: Canny – Make better product decisions with organized user feedback5 people · 26 mentions · first linked 2017-03-08
- /blog/what-youll-get-out-of-y-combinators-startup-school/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-07-18
- First hire to first fire2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-08-21
What Hacker News says?
This post, by Andrew Rasmussen, founder of Canny, is a nice overview of one company's experience last year: https://canny.io/blog/what-youll-get-out-of-y-combinators-st...
Comment linking /blog/what-youll-get-out-of-y-combinators-startup-school/
on “YC Startup School 2018: a free, 10-week, online course”Submitted How we built a $1M ARR SaaS startup as a story · 379 points
HN discussionOh wow, that's a good one! My favorite is being able to change the nav color (`topcolor`). I changed it to the purple brand color from our startup [1]. [1]: https://canny.io
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on “Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors”Submitted Free SaaS tools for companies on a budget as a story · 75 points
HN discussionTip: add a link somewhere on your blog to https://canny.io . I had to manually enter the URL in a new tab to look at your site. For some strange reason many blogs forget to include a link to the Real Thing.
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on “How We Bootstrapped Our SaaS Startup to Ramen Profitability”Submitted How we've attracted top talent to our early-stage bootstrapped startup as a story · 58 points
HN discussionCanny | Full-Stack Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time | https://canny.io Canny helps software companies keep track of feature requests to build better products. * Early-stage startup, 7 person team * Over 600 customers, including industry-leading companies like Lyft, Bench, and Compass * 100% remote, distributed across US, Canada, and Estonia * Bootstrapped and profitable We're hiring a full-stack engineer to help us bui…
Comment linking /blog/work-at-canny/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)”Submitted How we built a $1m ARR SaaS startup as a story · 15 points
HN discussionCanny | Full-Stack Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time | https://canny.io Canny helps SaaS companies build better products by being better at listening to and acting on user feedback. * Very early-stage startup, 2 person team, launched a year ago * Over 100 customers, including industry-leading companies like Flexport, Bench, and Compass * 100% remote, founders are digital nomads (currently hacking out of Ho Chi Minh) * B…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)”Submitted Show HN: Canny – Make better product decisions with organized user feedback as a story · 6 points
HN discussionCanny | Full-Stack Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time | https://canny.io Canny helps SaaS companies keep track of feature requests to build better products. * Early-stage startup, 3 person team, launched a year and a half ago * Over 250 customers, including industry-leading companies like Flexport, Bench, and Compass * 100% remote, founders are digital nomads (currently hacking out of Toronto) * Bootstrapped and profitab…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)”Submitted First hire to first fire as a story · 5 points
HN discussionCanny | Full-Stack Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time | https://canny.io Canny helps SaaS companies keep track of feature requests to build better products. * Early-stage startup, 3 person team, launched a year and a half ago * Over 250 customers, including industry-leading companies like Flexport, Bench, and Compass * 100% remote, founders are digital nomads (currently hacking out of Toronto) * Bootstrapped and profitab…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)”Submitted Show HN: Canny – Let your users vote on new features as a story · 5 points
HN discussionRunning my own bootstrapped SaaS startup, Canny ( https://canny.io ). I've always wanted to do a startup. Last year I wrote a blog post about the biggest lessons learned during the transition. Seems pretty relevant. https://hackernoon.com/software-engineer-to-saas-founder-c16... Also left SF to be a digital nomad. SF is so expensive and if you aren't fundraising you don't need to be there. There's so much of the wor…
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on “Ask HN: Ex-FAANG developers, where are you now and why?”Submitted Year three in review: Lessons from growing our bootstrapped startup as a story · 4 points
HN discussionCanny | Full-Stack Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time | https://canny.io Canny helps software companies keep track of feature requests to build better products. * Early-stage startup, 7 person team * Over 600 customers, including industry-leading companies like MongoDB, Facebook, Lyft, Bench, and Compass * 100% remote, distributed across US, Canada, and Estonia * Bootstrapped and profitable We're hiring a full-stack engi…
Comment linking /blog/work-at-canny/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2020)”Submitted Defending your early-stage SaaS startup against email spammers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionCanny | Software Engineer, Account Executive | REMOTE | Full-time | https://canny.io Canny helps software companies keep track of feature requests to build better products. * Small SaaS business, 16 person team, $3m+ annual recurring revenue * 100% remote, distributed across US, Canada, Mexico, Spain, Turkey * Bootstrapped and profitable https://careers.canny.io/?utm_source=hn Why work at Canny: https://canny.io/blo…
Comment linking /blog/work-at-canny/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)”Submitted Defending your early-stage SaaS startup against email spammers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionCanny | Full-Stack Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time | https://canny.io Canny helps software companies keep track of feature requests to build better products. * Early-stage startup, 5 person team, launched two years ago * Over 400 customers, including industry-leading companies like MongoDB, Facebook, Lyft, Ahrefs, Compass * 100% remote, founders are digital nomads (currently hacking out of Croatia) * Bootstrapped and…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019)”Submitted Show HN: Canny – The easiest way to collect and manage feedback as a story · 4 points
HN discussionCanny | Full-Stack Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time | https://canny.io Canny helps SaaS companies keep track of feature requests to build better products. * Early-stage startup, 5 person team, launched two years ago * Over 400 customers, including industry-leading companies like MongoDB, Facebook, Lyft, Bench, and Compass * 100% remote, distributed across US, Canada, UK, and Estonia * Bootstrapped and profitable, we ar…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019)”Submitted A step-by-step guide to experimenting with product pricing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCanny | Support Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time | https://canny.io Canny helps software companies keep track of feature requests to build better products. * Early-stage startup, 9 person team, $1m+ annual recurring revenue * Over 750 customers, including industry-leading companies like Ahrefs, Bench, and Compass * 100% remote, distributed across US, Canada, Argentina, and Estonia * Bootstrapped and profitable We're hi…
Comment linking /blog/work-at-canny/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)”Submitted Year four in review: Overcoming the unexpected as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCanny | Full-Stack Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time | https://canny.io Canny helps SaaS companies keep track of feature requests to build better products. * Very early-stage startup, 3 person team, launched just over a year ago * Over 200 customers, including industry-leading companies like Flexport, Bench, and Compass * 100% remote, founders are digital nomads (currently hacking out of Seattle) * Bootstrapped and prof…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)”Submitted How we built a $1m ARR SaaS startup as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCanny | Junior Software Engineer, Software Engineer, Product Designer, Account Executive | REMOTE | Full-time | https://canny.io Canny helps software companies keep track of feature requests to build better products. * Early-stage startup, 10 person team, $3m+ annual recurring revenue * 100% remote, distributed across US, Canada, Italy, Turkey, and Estonia * Bootstrapped and profitable https://careers.canny.io/?utm_…
Comment linking /blog/work-at-canny/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)”Submitted Debunking the “faster horse” concern in customer feedback as a story · 2 points
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