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Freshpaint Blog
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Freshpaint Blog is the company blog at freshpaint.io, writing about data and business. Since 2019, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times, most often “Anatomy of a Seed Round During Covid-19”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN threads link Freshpaint's blog for posts on raising a seed round during a down market and on why Snowflake is valuable. The links are mostly cited as sources or supporting points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Turn privacy into a strategic advantage. Freshpaint helps healthcare marketers measure ROI, improve campaign performance, and stay HIPAA-compliant across all channels
Most-linked posts?
- Anatomy of a Seed Round During Covid-193 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-08-18
- What Is Snowflake and Why Is It Exciting?2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-10-08
- GitHub Copilot and the Methods of Rationality2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-30
- A Beginner's Guide to Postgres Performance Monitoring2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-15
- Web Analytics Accidentally Collecting Passwords2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-05
- Why is Snowflake so Valuable?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-30
- Freshpaint: Customer Data Without the Dev Time2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-12
What Hacker News says?
> A $1.5m is barely enough to invest in one early stage startup these days. I just raised a $1.5m seed round for my startup and can tell you this isn't true. We've published all the numbers on our raise so you can take a look for yourself[0]. The average check an angel wrote was $22k and we even had a check as low as $5k. In fact, the largest check in our round was only $200k. [0] https://www.freshpaint.io/blog/anat…
Comment linking /blog/anatomy-of-a-seed-round-during-covid-19
on “Let employees sell their equity”Submitted Why is Snowflake so Valuable? as a story · 247 points
HN discussionI raised a seed round in March 2020. The market later in 2020 + 2021 went kinda haywire, but between March and July 2020 it was pretty rough out there. We started fundraising a week before the country went into lockdown from COVID-19. I wrote about it here, which I recommend you read: https://www.freshpaint.io/blog/anatomy-of-a-seed-round-durin... Some additional thoughts ~2 years later: 1. Wait if you can. Even jus…
Comment linking /blog/anatomy-of-a-seed-round-during-covid-19
on “Ask HN: How to raise a seed round in a down market?”Submitted Web Analytics Accidentally Collecting Passwords as a story · 38 points
HN discussionI think there's a huge, growing need for this and your sdk/api's seem very well-thought! As for the design of your site, it definitely leaves me assuming it's just an auth service. I'd focus more on showing psuedo example interfaces / flows that your service powers. For instance, show an example client app on the left, your sdk drops in, on the right your integrations UX showing all the apps you can now integrate wi…
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on “Launch HN: Xkit (YC S18) – OAuth infrastructure as a service”Submitted Anatomy of a Seed Round During Covid-19 as a story · 36 points
HN discussionHah, happened to see this mentioned in another comment today. It was FreshPaint, whose website includes this gem: "You need to install ad trackers on your website to get the most out of ad platforms like Facebook and Google Ads. Ad trackers can create issues for healthcare marketers by sending visitor identifiers and health information to platforms that aren't HIPAA-compliant." I'm sure they are good folks, but what…
Comment linking /hipaa-compliant-advertising
on “Meta Reports First Quarter 2024 Results”Submitted What Is Snowflake and Why Is It Exciting? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionCongratulations on your launch! I use Segment and can easily see the value in backfilling historical data when adding new data destinations. Also impressed with the respectable set of integrations [1] you have implemented already. [1]: https://www.freshpaint.io/integrations What would be your plan if Segment added “backfill” as a feature to their existing product? Does your “automation” also provide significant adva…
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on “Launch HN: Freshpaint (YC S19) – an automated, retroactive Segment alternative”Submitted GitHub Copilot and the Methods of Rationality as a story · 5 points
HN discussionFitz wrote a blog post on the analytics and marketing tools we recommend startups use [0]. It goes through a number of the different tools and why or why not you would want to use them. You should check it out. [0] https://www.freshpaint.io/blog/yc-stack-recommendations-for-...
Comment linking /blog/yc-stack-recommendations-for-growth-analytics-and-marketing-tools-for-2020-yc-startups
on “Launch HN: Freshpaint (YC S19) – an automated, retroactive Segment alternative”Submitted A Beginner's Guide to Postgres Performance Monitoring as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://www.freshpaint.io/blog/why-is-snowflake-so-valuable
Comment linking /blog/why-is-snowflake-so-valuable
on “Ask HN: What's so special about Snowflake?”Submitted Web Analytics Company, RudderStack, Accidentally Collecting Passwords as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFreshpaint is hiring! We're a YC- and Intel-backed company SaaS platform that provides a codeless customer data platform that is default-safe for companies that need to work with sensitive data, like protected health information. We're looking for software engineers and others to join our team: https://www.freshpaint.io/about
Comment linking /about
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2023)”Submitted Avoiding a Surprise AWS Bill as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Beginner's Guide to Postgres Performance Monitoring as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Our $30M Series B Means for Healthcare: A Message from Our CEO as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Phi? Ending the Confusion as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Find Anyone's Email Address in Seconds as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted GitHub Copilot and the Methods of Rationality as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Snowflake and Why Is It Exciting? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Snowflake and Why Is Everyone Excited About It? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Raising a Seed Round During Covid-19 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Anatomy of a Seed Round During Covid-19 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Find Anyone's Email Address in Seconds as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reflections on Building Freshpaint as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Freshpaint: Customer Data Without the Dev Time as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What HHS Has to Say About Tracking Technologies in Latest HIPAA Guidance as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Analytics Backwards: Identify Your Downstream Goals First as a story · 1 points
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