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David Hemphill

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David Hemphill's personal blog at davidhemphill.com covers programming and startups. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Why Build X When Y Exists?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-24, and you can follow it by feed.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2019–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2019

David Hemphill is a product engineer building Laravel products, developer tools, and software for people who make things on the internet.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Why Build X When Y Exists?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-30

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted Why Build X When Y Exists? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted Why Build X When Y Exists? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Small Wins as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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