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Derrick Reimer
Personal blog · derrickreimer.comstartupsbusinessprogramming
Derrick Reimer's personal blog at derrickreimer.com covers startups, business and programming. Since 2018, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Walking Away from the Product I Spent a Year Building”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Derrick Reimer's essays on building and giving up on solo software projects, and on pricing digital products. One commenter pointed a reader to the blog for solo developer work.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I love the craft of making software and I occasionally share my insights here.
Most-linked posts?
- Walking Away from the Product I Spent a Year Building5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-05-17
- Don't insult me with your pricing (2019)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-07-01
- Finding My Next Bootstrapped Business Idea2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-28
What Hacker News says?
Not meant as a dig at you, but your comment reminds me so much of this recent HN story: https://www.derrickreimer.com/essays/2019/05/17/im-walking-a... Guy spent a year trying to build a better slack, but then finds out people love to complain about slack, but will not make any steps to actually try any alternatives.
Comment linking /essays/2019/05/17/im-walking-away-from-the-product-i-spent-a-year-building.html
on “Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro”Submitted Walking Away from the Product I Spent a Year Building as a story · 494 points
HN discussionAs for developers building projects, you might like: https://www.derrickreimer.com/
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on “Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?”Submitted Finding My Next Bootstrapped Business Idea as a story · 190 points
HN discussionCorrect link: https://www.derrickreimer.com/essays/2019/05/28/finding-my-n...
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on “Finding My Next Bootstrapped Business Idea”Submitted Don't insult me with your pricing (2019) as a story · 41 points
HN discussionTotally! To clarify, by the "drop the ball" do you mean knowing when to call it quits if something is not working out? I recently wrote about my experience with that: https://www.derrickreimer.com/essays/2019/05/17/im-walking-a... My friend Justin Jackson also published a good article about this too: https://justinjackson.ca/giveup
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on “Finding My Next Bootstrapped Business Idea”Submitted The War on Developer Productivity (And How I Intend to Win It) as a story · 11 points
HN discussionLooks like Level is dead fyi https://www.derrickreimer.com/essays/2019/05/17/im-walking-a...
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on “Legend”Submitted Don’t Insult Me with Your Pricing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSome resources I've collected about pricing: https://cranberryblog.substack.com/p/a-simple-argument-for-i... https://zimtik.com/en/posts/lessons-learned-on-saas-pricing https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/payback-period https://www.derrickreimer.com/essays/2019/07/01/dont-insult-... https://restaurant-ingthroughhistory.com/restaurant-prices/ http://justinmares.com/why-real-businesses-dont-charge-5mont... https://adil…
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on “Ask HN: Recommended resources for pricing digital products/services?”Submitted 10 Questions for Teasing Out Market Opportunities as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI run a small, independent software company. First timer. > I estimate 2 weeks It is going to take longer than 2 weeks. And it is going be harder than you think. Building a product is only the beginning. You will have to write copy, find customers, implement billing and charge folks, offer support, do maintenance, build features, again find customers, talk to them, again build features, tweak copy, handle legal/acco…
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on “Ask HN: Should I Build This?”
