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CTO Craft
Company blog · ctocraft.com/blogcareerprogramming
CTO Craft is the company blog at ctocraft.com, writing about career and programming. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as a peer community where first-time CTOs hear how others handle their problems, and as a compensation survey source for engineering management. Also appears in newsletter lists.
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.
What makes a good CTO great? Continuous learning and coaching! We work with CTOs and Technology Managers in businesses across the world become better leaders through transformational coaching, mentoring, workshops and events
What Hacker News says?
As others have said, joining a community has been helpful to me. I would recommend CTO Craft. You get to hear what issues others are dealing with and how they solve them. https://ctocraft.com/community/
Comment linking /community/
on “Ask HN: What are good books/blogs to read for a first time CTO?”Submitted A CTO’s Playbook for Building Great Technology Products as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSome of the ones I follow: - Mr. Money Mustache for financial independence and lifestyle: https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/ - Quastor for large-scale engineering: https://www.quastor.org/ - Krebs for IT security: https://krebsonsecurity.com/ - Lenny's newsletter for product development: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/ - Psychotactics for marketing: https://www.psychotactics.com/ - CTO craft for CTOs: https://ctocra…
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on “Ask HN: Which mailing lists would you recommend to subscribe to?”Submitted Five Common Mistakes Engineering Managers Make as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSome of the ones I follow: - Mr. Money Mustache for financial independence and lifestyle: https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/ - Quastor for large-scale engineering: https://www.quastor.org/ - Krebs for IT security: https://krebsonsecurity.com/ - Lenny's newsletter for product development: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/ - Psychotactics for marketing: https://www.psychotactics.com/ - CTO craft for CTOs: https://ctocra…
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on “Ask HN: What newsletters are you currently reading?”Submitted What is the true cost of your hiring process? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe CTO Craft survey would be my go to buy tends to be quite UK focused. https://ctocraft.com/blog/compensation-survey-report-2026/
Comment linking /blog/compensation-survey-report-2026/
on “Ask HN: Job market for SDMs/Engineering Managers. Any reliable data?”