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Elia Insider

Personal blog · eliainsider.com · on HN as eliajfbusinessstartups

Elia Insider is a personal blog at eliainsider.com about business and startups. Since 2010, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 42 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-28, and you can follow it by feed.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 13 in 2011

Inside the brain of a software company founder.

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eliajf · 111 karma · member since 2012

Developer, father, writer (www.eliainsider.com), run a mobile/web software company

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  1. When you rely on another company's platform you are betting everything on the health and future of that platform. HTML will be around and Obj-C will be around. Will Parse? And if it isn't can you switch away quickly? I wrote about this last week, actually, if it is helpful: http://eliainsider.com/2012/08/17/live-platform-die-platform...

    Comment linking /2012/08/17/live-platform-die-platform/

    on “Question about Iphone apps development platform”
  2. Submitted IPhone vs Android? No. We're fighting the wrong fight as a story · 366 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Apple's churning of the gut as a story · 37 points

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  4. Submitted Apps Are Not Software as a story · 17 points

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  5. Submitted An Unbelievably Awesome Retail Experience as a story · 5 points

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  6. Submitted All I Want for WWDC Is My Two Front Teeth as a story · 5 points

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  7. Submitted Apple Doesn't Have To Do Jack S*** as a story · 4 points

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  8. Submitted Some of the worst startup advice I've ever read as a story · 3 points

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  9. Submitted Computer Science is a Misnomer as a story · 3 points

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  10. Submitted The Apple Squeeze as a story · 2 points

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  11. Submitted How we will all work with numbers in the future as a story · 2 points

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  12. Submitted 10 Thoughts On Converting Apps To iOS 7 as a story · 2 points

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  13. Submitted OS control and the next billion smartphones as a story · 2 points

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  14. Submitted Live By The Platform, Die By The Platform as a story · 2 points

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  15. Submitted Start-Ups Need Capital, Product, Customers. Which Do You Bring? as a story · 2 points

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  16. Submitted Nokia, HP and RIM, Oh My: A Mobile Developer's Perspective as a story · 2 points

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  17. Submitted Why RIM is Flailing as a story · 2 points

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  18. Submitted The one who owns the customer wins as a story · 1 points

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  19. Submitted What if Apple is actually better without Steve Jobs? as a story · 1 points

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  20. Submitted The iPad 2 and Education as a story · 1 points

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  21. Submitted Commoditize everyone else's business as a story · 1 points

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  22. Submitted The App Store Problem Is Not Price as a story · 1 points

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  23. Submitted Software, The Art Form as a story · 1 points

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  24. Submitted Artery Calcification as a story · 1 points

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  25. Submitted The key to entrepreneurship as a story · 1 points

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  26. Submitted The Small Things as a story · 1 points

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  27. Submitted Startup Doesn't Equal VC as a story · 1 points

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  28. Submitted The devil's in the details: designing a log in screen as a story · 1 points

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  29. Submitted The state of civility as a story · 1 points

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  30. Submitted Why the new iPod nano is interesting as a story · 1 points

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