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expletiveinserted.com is a personal blog at expletiveinserted.com about startups and business. Since 2011, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Cost breakdown for Stripe, Braintree, Chargify, Recurly and Saasy”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

18mentions?
17HN people?
2011–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its payment-processor cost comparisons and calculators (Stripe, Recurly, Braintree, PayPal alternatives), and for a post on Android versus iOS market share.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Cost breakdown for Stripe, Braintree, Chargify, Recurly and Saasy
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-01-20
  2. Recurring Payments Cost Calculator
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-10-27
  3. IOS versus Android: OS Footprint is not a Proxy for Application Footprint
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-04-08

What Hacker News says?

  1. Android has more market share than iOS, which would seem to suggest it's moved far beyond the "technical, geeky" crowd. OS market share is the easy metric, but it's not the right metric. Read the last six paragraphs: http://expletiveinserted.com/2011/04/02/ios-versus-android-o... Applying the Windows/Mac analogy to the mobile market is like trying to cram modern geopolitics into a cold war framework. You'll ruin you…

    Comment linking /2011/04/02/ios-versus-android-os-footprint-is-not-a-proxy-for-application-footprint/

    on “ Why do apps from the same company look worse on Android than on iPhone?”
  2. Submitted Cost breakdown for Stripe, Braintree, Chargify, Recurly and Saasy as a story · 152 points

    HN discussion
  3. I am in the process of integrating Recurly into my existing business, and I have to say, those graphs misleading regarding Recurly. The Recurly gateway is already included with the normal Recurly costs. Zero out the gateway numbers in the calculator there and you will see the difference. http://expletiveinserted.com/recurring-payment-cost-calculat... Granted, Stripe avoids the paperwork and business requirements for…

    Comment linking /recurring-payment-cost-calculator/

    on “Cost breakdown for Stripe, Braintree, Chargify, Recurly and Saasy”
  4. Submitted Satya Nadella’s Email, Decoded as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  5. During my search, I have found that Stripe is the best solution out there. There is even a post with cost comparison ( http://expletiveinserted.com/2011/10/02/stripes-new-online-p... ) that demosntrates that is also cheap. Unfortunately, Stripe is for USA-only. An alternative is, as some people already mentioned, http://saasy.com/ , which is a FastSpring service.

    Comment linking /2011/10/02/stripes-new-online-payments-service-wheres-the-catch/

    on “Ask HN: What is a good alternative to PayPal?”
  6. Submitted Lessons from the Failure of Readability’s Author Payment Plan as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  7. sjs · 2012-01-21Recommends
    His clients are the ones accepting payments though, so they need Canadian merchant accounts. Beanstream accepts Canadian merchants. We just started the sign up process with them last week, from Victoria BC. We're going with Beanstream + Chargify. You might want to take a look at this: http://expletiveinserted.com/2011/10/02/stripes-new-online-p...

    Comment linking /2011/10/02/stripes-new-online-payments-service-wheres-the-catch/

    on “Ask HN: What is a good alternative to PayPal?”
  8. Submitted The Emperor’s New Network Effects as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  9. http://expletiveinserted.com/recurring-payment-cost-calculat...

    Comment linking /recurring-payment-cost-calculator/

    on “Lowest priced online billing system?”
  10. Submitted Consumer Startups without Revenue are Products, not Businesses as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Google, H.264 and Sticking it to Apple as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted The Unprivilege Dimension as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted How Twitter could natively implement tweetstorms as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted The Myth of Customer Acquisition as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted There Will Be No Accounting for (Other People’s) Taste in Tablets as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Recurring Payments Cost Calculator as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted IOS versus Android: OS Footprint is not a Proxy for Application Footprint as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Comparing Recurring Payment Solutions as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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