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Des Traynor
Personal blog · destraynor.com/writing · on HN as destraynorstartupsdesignbusiness
Des Traynor's personal blog at destraynor.com covers startups, design and business. Since 2009, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Letting Go - An Irish startup goes from idea to sale”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-03-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Des Traynor is the co-founder of Fin, writing about product, marketing, technology, and life.
Most-linked posts?
- Letting Go - An Irish startup goes from idea to sale2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-10-01
What Hacker News says?
This kind of thing is inevitable. "We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make. We participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution." – Tim Cook on Apple's philosophy. (full text here: http://destraynor.com/cook/ )
Comment linking /cook/
on “Apple to drop Google Maps in iOS 6 for in-house Maps?”Submitted Letting Go - An Irish startup goes from idea to sale as a story · 27 points
HN discussionI sold a reasonably popular (1MM searches a month at peak time) for a very small amount of money. It was a Bebo search engine, and as its popularity followed the trajectory of Bebo (except AOL didn't come knocking with 850,000,000 sheets). I wrote about the story here and extracted a few lessons http://destraynor.com/serendipity/index.php?/archives/179-Le... It's a good read (though I would say), I'm not pimping for…
Comment linking /serendipity/index.php?/archives/179-Letting-go.html
on “Ask HN: Tell me about your failed startup.”Submitted Questions I'll always ask in a product review as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ship it or Shut up - an oldie but a goodie as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't Forget to Launch (2020) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't Forget to Launch (2020) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startup lessons from Bigulo as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted She would be 80 today (2019) as a story · 1 points
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