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Crash Dev

Personal blog · crashdev.com · on HN as crashdevstartupsbusiness

Crash Dev is a personal blog at crashdev.com about startups and business. Since 2012, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times, most often “Why not to do a local + online startup (and what to do instead)”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.

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33mentions?
15HN people?
2012–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 15 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked for a 2012 founder post giving three reasons not to build a local business, which one commenter cites in a discussion of Pinterest and local mobile apps. No comment praises or criticises the writing.

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.

The author on HN?

crashdev · 149 karma · member since 2009

http://www.founderscoop.com http://www.crashdev.com http://www.twitter.com/crashdev http://www.linkedin.com/in/devore

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Why not to do a local + online startup (and what to do instead)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-02-04

What Hacker News says?

  1. eb007 · 2012-09-17
    true... and i wonder how many other untold stories there are that are out there about small businesses benefiting from Pinterest. the funny thing is how everyone goes after local with mobile and pretty much doesn't get much explosive success (sorry Foursquare but it's true). in fact, i was reading this founder's post on why you shouldn't do local: http://www.crashdev.com/2012/01/top-three-reasons-not-to-do-... But t…

    Comment linking /2012/01/top-three-reasons-not-to-do-local.html

    on “The Single Pinterest Pin That Launched a Company”
  2. ct · 2012-02-04

    Submitted Why not to do a local + online startup (and what to do instead) as a story · 82 points

    HN discussion
  3. crashdev · 2013-07-23

    Submitted More Bad Angel Behavior as a story · 70 points

    HN discussion
  4. crashdev · 2013-08-05

    Submitted The stealthy industrial revolution already underway in open source hardware as a story · 69 points

    HN discussion
  5. turoczy · 2012-09-19

    Submitted The Eye of the Needle as a story · 28 points

    HN discussion
  6. crashdev · 2013-03-29

    Submitted What is a non-Valley seed fund good for? as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  7. cek · 2013-03-05

    Submitted How Amazon achieves excellence at scale as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  8. harscoat · 2012-08-24

    Submitted Why early-stage VCs are greedy bastards as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. ljlolel · 2023-02-06

    Submitted The one thing you can’t teach an entrepreneur as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. crashdev · 2014-10-09

    Submitted More bad startup ideas as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. turoczy · 2012-02-09

    Submitted Accelerator = Incubator (and why it matters) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. ph0rque · 2014-12-12

    Submitted What log scale interval are you? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. crashdev · 2014-10-15

    Submitted Why won't some investors just say 'no'? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. peterkchen · 2014-07-24

    Submitted The one thing you can't teach an entrepreneur as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. crashdev · 2014-07-24

    Submitted The one thing you can't teach an entrepreneur as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. crashdev · 2013-11-11

    Submitted Why betting on HTML5 / Mobile Web is the wrong answer for the enteprise as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. crashdev · 2013-11-05

    Submitted How technology changed sides: industrial entropy + the agile firm as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. crashdev · 2013-10-18

    Submitted What does it take to close a great Series A right now? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. crashdev · 2013-05-20

    Submitted How to turn your SaaS application into a high-touch service as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. areahouse40 · 2013-01-26

    Submitted Why "boring" Middle Market companies are critical to your startup ecosystem as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. turoczy · 2012-10-18

    Submitted The Crazy Upside-Down Economics of the Seed-Stage Ecosystem as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. crashdev · 2012-10-10

    Submitted Think mobile apps are big business? Bigcos will spend 10x more to support them as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  23. ph0rque · 2012-07-13

    Submitted Tick tick tick as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  24. turoczy · 2012-03-30

    Submitted What does transparency buy you? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  25. schwarzrules · 2012-03-28

    Submitted Things a startup accelerator is Not as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  26. calbucci · 2012-02-16

    Submitted Amazon's Achilles Heel - A failure of will to integrate social as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  27. tomfakes · 2012-02-02

    Submitted Traders vs. Makers: Internet Bubble IPOs vs Facebook IPO as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  28. crashdev · 2014-06-24

    Submitted The Valuation Stack as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  29. crashdev · 2014-05-29

    Submitted Can state governments play a positive role in fostering innovation? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  30. turoczy · 2014-03-03

    Submitted Decision compounding as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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