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Parse.ly
Company blog · blog.parse.ly/blogstartupsdata
Parse.ly is the company blog at blog.parse.ly, writing about startups and data. Since 2011, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 50 times, most often “Why We Said “No” to a $40M Round”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Parse.ly's blog for web traffic and content analytics posts, including its reasons for taking less VC funding and its write-up of 'shadow traffic' from blocked analytics. Most links support other points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Why We Said “No” to a $40M Round2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-08-09
- This Team Used Apache Cassandra… You Won’t Believe What Happened Next2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-10-13
- Tweeting Alone: Why Social Media Is Not A Substitute For Civic Engagement2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-06-13
- Lucene: The Good Parts (2015)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-29
What Hacker News says?
Parse.ly | Success Engineers + Software Engineers | Remote | Full-Time What's Parse.ly? We've built a real-time content measurement layer for the entire web. Our analytics platform helps digital storytellers at some of the web's best sites, such as Arstechnica, The New Yorker, TechCrunch, The Intercept, Mashable, and many more. In total, our analytics system handles over 65 billion monthly events from over 1 billion…
Comment linking /post/46/?utm_campaign=hn201707
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)”Submitted Why We Said “No” to a $40M Round as a story · 192 points
HN discussionParse.ly | Frontend Engineer | Remote | Full-Time | http://parsely.com What's Parse.ly? A real-time content measurement layer for the entire web. Parse.ly is trusted by over 250 enterprises, used by over 2,500+ high-traffic websites, and has tens of thousands of active user seats. We are an established, but quickly-growing, company with a 20+ person product team and millions of dollars in revenue. Our beautiful dash…
Comment linking /post/4736/mission/?utm_campaign=oct2017_job
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)”Submitted Lucene: The Good Parts (2015) as a story · 80 points
HN discussionParse.ly | Software Engineer | Remote | Full-Time What's Parse.ly? We've built a real-time content measurement layer for the entire web. Our analytics platform helps digital storytellers at some of the web's best sites, such as Arstechnica, The New Yorker, TechCrunch, The Intercept, Mashable, and many more. In total, our analytics system handles over 65 billion monthly events from over 1 billion monthly unique visit…
Comment linking /post/46/whatever-it-takes/?utm_campaign=sep2017_job&utm_source=hn
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)”Submitted Shadow traffic: site visits that are not captured by typical analytics providers as a story · 58 points
HN discussionParse.ly | Growth & Data Lead | EST, CST Preferred | Full-Time | Remote | https://parse.ly What's Parse.ly? A real-time content measurement layer for the entire web. Parse.ly is trusted by over 400 enterprises, used by over 3,000 high-traffic websites, and has tens of thousands of active user seats. We are an established, but quickly-growing, company with a 30+ person product + engineering + design team, sitting ins…
Comment linking /post/4736/mission/?utm_campaign=oct201..
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)”Submitted One analyst's attempts to demystify the types of traffic Google sends publishers as a story · 49 points
HN discussionParse.ly | Growth & Data Lead | Remote | Fully Distributed Team | https://parse.ly Parse.ly is the web's attention engine. As a measurement layer running across the web, Parse.ly quantifies how visitors respond to online content. Our products are then used by the web's biggest brands and publishers to understand audience attention across the internet in real-time. Our flagship product is Parse.ly Analytics ( https:/…
Comment linking /post/4736/mission
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)”Submitted Homepagesickness as a story · 13 points
HN discussionPerhaps more interesting is that Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch, just IPO'ed on NYSE, and they, too, have a fully distributed team of over 700 -- might even be trending toward 1000 by now. Zapier is another one at multi-hundred-person scale, and is a YC company. A couple other scaled-up ones on this model include Automattic (company behind Wordpress), DataStax (company behind Cassandra). There is also Wik…
Comment linking /post/4736/mission/
on “InVision has no physical headquarters and all 700 employees work remotely”Submitted Do Startups Need Peer Review? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHmm, that's an interesting question, but I'm not sure I fully understand it. By invalid traffic, do you just mean, non-human (bot) traffic? If so, I can say that over time, we have improved our use of bot lists, though that's just an IP blocking thing. Non-human traffic detection is not presently a strong focus of the company, though people have asked us to invest there. The issue is that non-human traffic detection…
Comment linking /post/6509/replacing-bounce-rate-with-engagement-rate/
on “Audit suggests Google favors a small number of major news outlets”Submitted Parse.ly closes $800k financial round as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHey, CTO of Parse.ly here. Might be surprising, but news sites get their traffic from 5 broad categories: (1) search engines (mostly Google in US); (2) social networks (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest, etc.); (3) editorial & recirculation (homepage promotion, article-to-article promotion); (4) direct, text, & email, which covers things like WhatsApp and manually shared email links; and (5) the long tail ("oth…
Comment linking /post/8329/the-14-top-referrer-sources-by-word-count-device-type-and-categories-viewed/
on “Audit suggests Google favors a small number of major news outlets”Submitted Machine learning for news: the NLP engine behind Parse.ly Currents as a story · 2 points
HN discussionParse.ly | Software Engineer | Remote | Full-Time What's Parse.ly? We've built a real-time content measurement layer for the entire web. Our analytics platform helps digital storytellers at some of the web's best sites, such as Arstechnica, The New Yorker, TechCrunch, The Intercept, Mashable, and many more. In total, our analytics system handles over 65 billion monthly events from over 1 billion monthly unique visit…
Comment linking /post/46/?utm_campaign=aug2017_job&utm_source=hn
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017)”Submitted Doug Rickard is spying on you and making art as a story · 2 points
HN discussionParse.ly | Frontend Engineer | Remote | Full-Time | https://parse.ly What's Parse.ly? A real-time content measurement layer for the entire web. Parse.ly is trusted by over 350 enterprises, used by over 3,500+ high-traffic websites, and has tens of thousands of active user seats. We are an established, but quickly-growing, company with a 20+ person product team and millions of dollars in revenue. Our beautiful dashbo…
Comment linking /post/4736/mission/?utm_campaign=hn_aug_2019
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)”Submitted How Vegan Carrot Cake Taught Me To Sell as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe internet is growing in users ( http://www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users/ ) and sites ( https://news.netcraft.com/archives/category/web-server-surve... ) BUT this growth means most of it goes to Google and Facebook (see case Latin America: https://www.sandvine.com/resources/global-internet-phenomena... and https://blog.parse.ly/post/2855/facebook-continues-to-beat-g... ). Basically the internet grew about…
Comment linking /post/2855/facebook-continues-to-beat-google-in-sending-traffic-to-top-publishers/
on “The Web in 2050”Submitted Tweeting Alone: Why Social Media Is Not A Substitute For Civic Engagement as a story · 2 points
HN discussionParse.ly recently wrote a fairly insightful piece about their reasons for taking less funding than was on the table: https://blog.parse.ly/post/6282/why-we-said-no-vc-money/
Comment linking /post/6282/why-we-said-no-vc-money/
on “Freight startup Flexport soars from ‘unsexy’ to $800M valuation”Submitted Link-in-bio providers add 10-15% to Instagram referral traffic as a story · 1 points
HN discussionParse.ly | Frontend Engineer | Remote | Full-Time | https://parse.ly What's Parse.ly? A real-time content measurement layer for the entire web. Parse.ly is trusted by over 400 enterprises, used by over 4,000 high-traffic websites, and has tens of thousands of active user seats for its core analytics product. We are an established, but quickly-growing, company with a 20+ person product team and millions of dollars in…
Comment linking /post/4736/mission/?utm_campaign=hn_sep_2019
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2019)”Submitted This Team Used Apache Cassandra… You Won’t Believe What Happened Next as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI have an interesting question about GDPR and all legal compliance efforts. When GDPR was first announced, I studied it in-depth because I'm the CTO of a company involved in first-party content analytics, and I wanted to ensure we complied. In addition to making changes internally and technically to ensure compliance, I also prepared a long Google Slide presentation that basically summarized my technical understandi…
Comment linking /post/author/andrew-montalenti/
on “GDPR After One Year”Submitted Tweeting Alone as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI've worked remotely for Parse.ly ( https://www.parse.ly/ ) for the last 6 years and am also a Canadian, living in Toronto. To answer some of your questions: Q: Where should I start? Job boards like https://remoteok.io/ and https://weworkremotely.com/ are great places to look for remote work (Parse.ly has posted jobs and hired candidates from We Work Remotely before). For companies that you see on those boards, foll…
Comment linking /post/3203/the-how-and-why-of-parse-lys-fully-distributed-team/
on “Ask HN: Looking to branch out into remote work, how to start”Submitted What Facebook Can Learn From McDonald's as a story · 1 points
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