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Cloakist Blog
Company blog · cloak.ist/blogwebstartups
Cloakist Blog is the company blog at cloak.ist, writing about web and startups. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a post about growing a small business to $400 MRR over several years. One commenter found the post genuine but its self-deprecating framing unflattering.
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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What Hacker News says?
This is sad to me. This guy seems to have written a genuine post about growing his business to $400 MRR [1], but it leads with self deprecation, and then he follows it with this take down of... himself? Louis, I don't know you, I've not come across Cloakist before, but you've done something solid here, and MRR is truly a long slope of soul crushing growth and you're playing the game fine. Keep it up. Five months in…
Comment linking /blog/how-we-got-to-400-mrr-in-5-months/
on “How I got to $9.99 MRR after 7 years”Submitted How I got to $9.99 MRR after 7 years as a story · 258 points
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