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Company blog · dtelepathy.com/blog · on HN as dtelepathydesign

dtelepathy.com is the company blog at dtelepathy.com, writing about design. Since 2011, 25 different Hacker News readers have linked it 75 times, most often “Wordpress As a Saas Application Platform? …WHAA?”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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75mentions?
25HN people?
2011–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 19 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters cite a dtelepathy post on Hello Bar, a SaaS run on WordPress, as an example. Other comments are a 2013 hiring post from the UX agency behind SlideDeck and Hello Bar.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

The author on HN?

dtelepathy · 29 karma · member since 2010

Founder of UX agency that builds apps for web designers. www.dtelepathy.com

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Wordpress As a Saas Application Platform? …WHAA?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-11-29
  2. UX Metrics
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-07-11
  3. How To Help Japan's Earthquake Relief Efforts
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-03-11
  4. The Complete Guide to the Product Design Process
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-04-05
  5. Responsive or Bust: Google’s Focus on Mobile and How to Design for It
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-14

What Hacker News says?

  1. Awesome to hear about the clickthrough rate. I just wrote this post: http://www.dtelepathy.com/blog/telepathy/how-to-help-japan-w... I am also going to ask some of the speakers at SXSW to share the "helpjapan" invite key at their talks. I updated the code to a Hello Bar we control in case there are scaling issues: <script type="text/javascript" src="//www.hellobar.com/hellobar.js"></script> <script type="text/javasc…

    Comment linking /blog/telepathy/how-to-help-japan-with-aid-and-awareness/

    on “8.9 earthquake hits Japan”
  2. Submitted Design Matters: Business, strategy and design insights, published twice a week as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  3. San Diego, CA - Full time - UX Designers for products & services company. We're digital-telepathy, but our friends call us dt. We're the UX Agency and Products shop behind SlideDeck, Hello Bar, Flare and more. We focus on ideas that are challenging, rewarding and fun. We're growing on both the products and client side of the fence and are looking for great UX & Interface Designers to be a part of our team. ...Intere…

    Comment linking /careers/ux-designer

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2013)”
  4. Submitted 7 Predictions for 2015: How Design Will Impact Your Life and Business as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  5. There are some examples out there. (see links below) I would recommend only using Wordpress for the public facing website or blog though. Use Rails or Laravel for the actual SaaS application. WP is difficult to work with when you start moving beyond CMS features. Also WP has ongoing security issues. Rails and Laravel are made for building apps, is easier to work with and more secure. Also checkout Laravel Spark, it'…

    Comment linking /blog/products/wordpress-saas-application-platform

    on “Ask HN: How Wordpress can help startups/MVPs?”
  6. Submitted How to design for viral growth (infographic) as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  7. Hello Bar ( http://hellobar.com ) is run on Wordpress: http://www.dtelepathy.com/blog/filament/wordpress-saas-appli...

    Comment linking /blog/filament/wordpress-saas-application-platform

    on “Ask HN: Anyone running a substantial business on wordpress?”
  8. Submitted Can You MVP a Legacy Product? By Jeff Gothelf of Lean UX as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted How to choose the right UX metrics for your product as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted 16 Great UX Conversations On Quora as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted 12 Apple Watch Apps That Could Change Your Life as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Think You Got What It Takes to Be a Successful Startup? Advice from Dan Martell as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Why Developers Always Say No as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted How Fullscreen's New Website Design Reduced Bounce Rate and Boosted Click Throughs as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted “So, What's the difference between a coder and an engineer?” as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted UX Metrics as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted How to Improve the User Experience with “Objective-Based Design” as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted How to Handle Tough Client Situations Like a Boss as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted When Things Get Weird: 13 of the Strangest Sites on the Web as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted The Tyler Durden Philosophy of Product Design as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Show about design and startups as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Stop Planning Great Culture, Start Living It as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted How We Increased Conversions 21% in 30 Days With a Website Redesign as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Failure to Launch: How UX Design Can Save the Internet of Things as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted The Ultimate (and Free) Tool for Facilitating Design Sprints as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted UX Teardown: How Streaming Video Apps Keep You Binge Watching as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted The Complete Guide to the Product Design Process as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted The Complete Guide to the Product Design Process as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted How to Apply Design Thinking to Elevate Your Everyday Life as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted Using UX to unlock hidden growth and profitability as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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