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Dan Grossman
Personal blog · dangrossman.info · on HN as dangrossmanprogrammingbusiness
Dan Grossman's personal blog at dangrossman.info covers programming and business. Since 2007, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 37 times, most often “Who Hosts the Y Combinator Startups?”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dan Grossman's blog for practical posts on his own projects: a step-by-step startup launch write-up, email alerts for Hacker News, and a post on which startups host on Azure or Y Combinator hosting.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Dan Grossman. I build software and make physical goods in North Carolina.
Most-linked posts?
- Who Hosts the Y Combinator Startups?3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-01-29
- Step by Step of Launching a New Service3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-07-02
- Mandrill’s Betrayal2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-03-01
- What HN Users Use (45% Mac, 63% Chrome)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-08-23
What Hacker News says?
It boggles my mind why anyone would use MailChimp. The most important trait for a good organization is ethics. When they acquired Mandrill, they did the same to PAYING customers[1]. They even turned off comments on the blog post of the announcement. And ever since they did these shady things, they super-charged their SEO to hide any mention of this fiasco. If you do a quick Google search for "mailchimp mandrill" you…
Comment linking /2016/02/28/mandrills-betrayal/
on “MailChimp deleted my account with no warning”Submitted Show HN: A date range picker for Twitter Bootstrap as a story · 363 points
HN discussionI thought you meant http://www.dangrossman.info/ had a course. Instead, I think you mean https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~djg/ The former is active on hn, and the later is a CS professor. Would be interested in a course from either :)
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on “Ask HN: Best passive income method for a solo developer?”Submitted Mandrill’s Betrayal as a story · 323 points
HN discussionhttp://www.awio.com or http://www.dangrossman.info/folio/ if you'd like to take a look. I'm extremely open about my business. I've thought about writing this type of article to share on HN before, but it always comes across as bragging instead of sharing so I can the idea soon after starting. This is not an overnight success story. I earned my first paycheck on the internet when I was 15 or so, 10 years ago. I've ha…
Comment linking /folio/
on “Running a Software Business on 5 Hours A Week”Submitted What HN Users Use (45% Mac, 63% Chrome) as a story · 83 points
HN discussionUnfortunately this is standard MailChimp way of doing things ever since they screwed over paying customers and merged with Mandrill [1]. They are the opposite of a transparent organization - they are the GoDaddy of this business. (I was super pissed once they removed their status page..WTF). We hit these errors a few months ago with our clients and I put up a roadmap to move all of them off the terrible joke that Ma…
Comment linking /2016/02/28/mandrills-betrayal/
on “Mandrill has been down for over 30 hours with no explanation”Submitted What startups need to know about the “internet sales tax bill” as a story · 36 points
HN discussionhttp://www.dangrossman.info/2009/07/02/step-by-step-of-launc...
Comment linking /2009/07/02/step-by-step-of-launching-a-new-service/
on “Who is living off their startup fulltime?”Submitted A New W3Counter, Again as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIn 99.9% of cases, a $5 VPS would have been able to handle the Reddit/HN traffic, if only it were configured better. If you "yum/apt-get install httpd" and call it a day, your default configuration will cause Apache to spawn more processes than there is available memory as soon as you get more than a few visits at once, and the disk swapping will kill the box. If you set reasonable limits for the number of processes…
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on “What do you need to make a successful web app?”Submitted Step by Step of Launching a New Service as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI did my own little analysis of Hacker News readers based on the ~20,000 of you that visited my blog recently: http://www.dangrossman.info/2012/08/21/what-hacker-news-user... Of course, I didn't survey people or have access to demographic profiles from other sites, so it's just a breakdown of systems. To summarize, the average HN reader runs Chrome 21 on a pre-Retina MacBook.
Comment linking /2012/08/21/what-hacker-news-users-use/
on “Hacker News is 44% 18-24 year olds, 77% male”Submitted Tag Your WordPress Archives With Semantic Analysis as a story · 4 points
HN discussionCash-strapped startups are not choosing DigitalOcean, they're choosing AWS. That's their point of comparison. Your assertion was that 100EUR would be a barrier to startups, not just to yourself. http://www.dangrossman.info/2012/09/24/who-hosts-the-y-combi...
Comment linking /2012/09/24/who-hosts-the-y-combinator-startups/
on “Hetzner's new server offer: 1 Gbit, 2 x 240GB SSD, 32GB RAM - 59 euros/month”Submitted Merchant Accounts Suck as a story · 3 points
HN discussionInstead of a $99 custom button, what about a sub-$99 Android tablet? You can put them anywhere you'd put the button, and leave your home control app running with the screen set to never turn off. Turning on/off a light with a touch will then be no more effort than flicking a light switch -- there's nothing to take out of your pocket, no waiting for an app to open. This is how my home works. I built the app that runs…
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on “Smartphone ≠ smart home”Submitted Step by Step of Launching a New Service as a story · 3 points
HN discussionDepends what you consider a startup, I guess. I support around 40,000 users and half a million a year in revenue from my web apps and ecommerce sites. You could say I've been OPP since I was 15, when I was making enough from websites I'd built to pay hosting costs, cable modem service, and buy my own computers. I'm 25 now, have never been cash flow negative in my life, no debt. I have no cofounder or employees, I ow…
Comment linking /folio/
on “One Person Profitable (In defense of single founders)”Submitted Semantic Tag Suggestions for WordPress as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis is paired with a provision that states must simplify their sales tax codes before they can collect from out-of-state sellers, though it's not hard to see how they could stay within the requirements of the bill and still have overly complicated rules. I wrote a summary a few weeks ago: http://www.dangrossman.info/2013/04/24/what-startups-need-to...
Comment linking /2013/04/24/what-startups-need-to-know-about-the-internet-sales-tax-bill/
on “Senate Backs Bill to Force Tax Collection on Internet Sales”Submitted PHP Development Environment as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYes, the "internet sales tax bill" (marketplace fairness act) passed the Senate this week. It has White House support, so only needs to pass the House to become law. A summary: http://www.dangrossman.info/2013/04/24/what-startups-need-to...
Comment linking /2013/04/24/what-startups-need-to-know-about-the-internet-sales-tax-bill/
on “Go ahead, pass the Internet tax. Your (foreign) competitors thank you.”Submitted Who Hosts the Y Combinator Startups? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMy own analysis of 21,000 HN visits a month ago had Chrome usage at 63% and 10% on Linux. http://www.dangrossman.info/2012/08/21/what-hacker-news-user...
Comment linking /2012/08/21/what-hacker-news-users-use/
on “Show HN: What's Your Browser's Age?”Submitted Open Calais PHP Class (Semantic Tagging) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI started my business in earnest freshman year of college, 2003/2004, with virtually no money. I developed a handful of SaaS webapps with a couple tens of thousands of users I support on my own. It's a lifestyle business, with no employees and no grand ambitions... just enough work for a comfortable schedule and good enough pay that I'd never trade it in for regular employment. http://www.dangrossman.info/category/p…
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on “Who is living off their (bootstrapped) startup fulltime?”Submitted The $10,000 Lifecycle E-mail as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFor notifications I use http://www.dangrossman.info/2016/02/21/e-mail-alerts-for-hac... and couldn't be happier.
Comment linking /2016/02/21/e-mail-alerts-for-hacker-news-comments/
on “Apply HN: Make HN social – follow users, topics, and get notified about replies”Submitted 10 Years of W3Counter as a story · 1 points
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