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Company blog · cloak.software/blogstartupsprogramming

Cloak is the company blog at cloak.software, writing about startups and programming. Since 2022, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “I built a startup in Rust, I would do it again”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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9mentions?
6HN people?
2022–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2023

Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link Cloak's site to promote its secrets and environment-variable tool, and cite its Rust posts such as 'Rust on Nails' and 'I built startup in Rust'. No comment judges the writing itself.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. I built a startup in Rust, I would do it again
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-03-09
  2. Rust on Nails: A full stack architecture for Rust web applications
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-13

What Hacker News says?

  1. I was reminded of Rust on Nails [0], which i found here [1]. [0] https://cloak.software/blog/rust-on-nails/ [1] https://github.com/tokio-rs/axum/blob/main/ECOSYSTEM.md#proj...

    Comment linking /blog/rust-on-nails/

    on “Async Rust doesn't have to be hard”
  2. Submitted Rust on Nails: A full stack architecture for Rust web applications as a story · 74 points

    HN discussion
  3. I can give you a concrete example if that helps. I looked at the "secrets automation" space and my background is cryptography and web development. I'm a solo developer so when I look at a problem I have to make the solution small enough that I can actually build it. I also have to have an idea about how I will get people to use my product i.e. marketing. In my case 1Password raised 620million in funding based on the…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: How to find a problem a solo founder could and would want to solve?”
  4. Submitted Building a Startup in Rust as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Very nice post even though they're always in this form of "here is my 10 favorite Rust features". Another one along the same lines: https://cloak.software/blog/i-built-startup-in-rust/ > 95% of the unwraps in our codebase are in unit tests. There's a crate for that: https://crates.io/crates/testresult

    Comment linking /blog/i-built-startup-in-rust/

    on “Why use Rust on the back end?”
  6. Submitted I built a startup in Rust, I would do it again as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. I've just launched an MVP for a solution to this problem. https://cloak.software/

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: How does your team manage environment variables?”
  8. Submitted I built a startup in Rust, I would do it again as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. SEEKING FOUNDER CEO | Dev Tools | CEO Co-founder | Worldwide | MVP Looking for Someone with experience taking a product to market, someone willing to trade equity for MAUs. Idea https://cloak.software/ Current Progress Ready to onboard users but still a few features to add. Contact https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianpurton

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Co-Founder? Seeking Co-Founder?”

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