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Caspar von Wrede
Personal blog · casparwre.de/blogstartupsprogrammingbusiness
Caspar von Wrede's personal blog at casparwre.de covers startups, programming and business. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Deployment and infrastructure for a bootstrapped webapp with 150k monthly visits”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Caspar von Wrede's blog for indie-hacker writing on small bootstrapped projects and launches, and for a post on an SEO scam that injected spam into a free online tool.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
This is Caspar’s personal website where you can find some incomplete and skewed information about him.
Most-linked posts?
- Deployment and infrastructure for a bootstrapped webapp with 150k monthly visits2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-26
- Why you should launch your product without a login2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-11
- The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-07
What Hacker News says?
This. Here is a great post on it from a fellow indie-hacker: https://casparwre.de/blog/launching-a-product-without-a-logi... He built https://keepthescore.co/ precisely with this in mind.
Comment linking /blog/launching-a-product-without-a-login/
on “The Joy of Small Projects”Submitted The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam as a story · 1743 points
HN discussionThe author says the product is hosted on two VPS servers, a managed database, and a floating IP; I doubt that'll be a significant part of the costs. If that bill includes (business) licenses for software and subscriptions, it's pretty reasonable. I'm sure it can be done cheaper and I'm sure the author has looked into this as well. Maybe it's not worth the effort, or maybe there's some other blocker preventing migrat…
Comment linking /blog/webapp-python-deployment/
on “Deployment and infrastructure for a bootstrapped webapp with 150k monthly visits”Submitted Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast as a story · 771 points
HN discussionThanks! Yes, me too before. But I have decided to build an offline tool. First, because I tired of search it all the time and want keep it locally. Second, that free online tools sometimes do bad things... Here is an article about some bad seo injection, but I always wonder what else they can do with data we paste and copy all the time. https://casparwre.de/blog/seo-scam/
Comment linking /blog/seo-scam/
on “Utilso – cross-platform tools for developers”Submitted Deployment and infrastructure for a bootstrapped webapp with 150k monthly visits as a story · 252 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hiding Arnold Schwarzenegger in my product to spread the truth in Russia as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I'm Switching to Apple as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted If I died tomorrow, how long would my webapp keep running? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Anatomy of a scam campaign, from the point of view of a link shortener as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Breaking Down the Costs of a Bootstrapped SaaS with $11,000 Monthly Revenue as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why you should launch your product without a login as a story · 1 points
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