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Cory Watilo
Personal blog · watilo.com · on HN as corywatilostartupsdesignbusiness
Cory Watilo's personal blog at watilo.com covers startups, design and business. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “An open letter to Flightcar”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-03-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Mostly me complaining about poor UX =]
Most-linked posts?
- An open letter to Flightcar2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-08-10
What Hacker News says?
The same thing happened to my domain name about a month ago. (I also posted about it here.) This is happening more and more frequently, and the fact they block entire domains rather than a specific subdomain is really poor design. I finally got it unblocked, but only thanks to a former colleague (engineer) who now works at Facebook. If that didn't work, my next step was going to be filing a lawsuit, just to try to g…
Comment linking /facebooks-community-standards-censorship-has-far-reaching-consequences
on “Facebook has blocked Dreamwidth”Submitted How to charge clients: flat fee vs. hourly rate? as a story · 116 points
HN discussionGood riddance. They tried to reboot a few months back but the damage had already been done. The people who really wanted this sort of business to succeed (including myself) had already tried to embrace them, but got burned too much in the past to risk giving them another shot. My guess is the only potential market going forward were people who randomly came across FlightCar when searching for rental cars. My money i…
Comment linking /open-letter-to-flightcar
on “FlightCar shuts down”Submitted My domain registrar (DNSimple) tried to 5x the cost of my reseller plan as a story · 86 points
HN discussionI will never forget the comment a disgruntled former Flightcar employee left on my rant I posted about Flightcar. I am a current flightcar employee so I will be anonymous. I read your post and listened to your recordings and I will do my best to break down whats going on a flightcar. I am sorry to hear your experience... Do not use flightcar or recommend flightcar to any one. The CEO is a 20 year old kid and only in…
Comment linking /open-letter-to-flightcar
on “My car was damaged with FlightCar and they don't care – here's the 3-month story”Submitted Joining a startup: high salary, no equity OR "startup salary" with equity? as a story · 78 points
HN discussionSubmitted Facebook’s community standards censorship has far-reaching consequences as a story · 73 points
HN discussionSubmitted The biggest iOS 5 bug you've never heard of as a story · 72 points
HN discussionSubmitted An open letter to Flightcar as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Does Stripe profit from chargebacks? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Obama raising taxes hurts the startup industry as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Coincidences as a story · 2 points
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