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Dan Wolchonok
Personal blog · danwolch.comstartupsbusinessdata
Dan Wolchonok's personal blog at danwolch.com covers startups, business and data. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Being the Closest to the Customer”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its principles for great product managers, a list of PM advice on leading a team and product vision. One commenter, a 19-year software PM, says it matches their experience.
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.
Notes on building products with AI
Most-linked posts?
- Being the Closest to the Customer2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-09
What Hacker News says?
This list jibes with my experience (been a software PM for 19 years, coach lots of PMs as a service[1]). But I find it incredibly surprising that the word "customer" appears only once in this post in the "Leader your Team" section: > The game you’re playing: Your vision for the product, your product’s value to the customer, your competitive advantage, and how you’ll win. In my experience a PM's job #1 is to know the…
Comment linking /2019/04/being-the-closest-to-the-customer/
on “Principles for great product managers”Submitted Most Popular Google Chrome Extensions as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted How we use Metabase as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Being the Closest to the Customer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Snapchat's data secrecy and culture: Can I really judge them? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Choosing a behavioral analytics system: our journey to Amplitude as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chrome Extensions with the most growth in 2015 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted When to put your head down as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Easily Report on Stripe Data (Using Segment and Metabase) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Email Cohort Retention as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Accounting for as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using analytics before any code is written as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Flying blind: not setting or measuring product metric goals as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Segment Your User Base: Depth of Engagement as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Predicting the future, one week at a time as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Side by Side New User Emails for Facebook and Twitter as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Metric Watched by Top Startup Growth Teams as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Hard Secret About Optimizing Week 1 Retention as a story · 1 points
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