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Garrett Dimon
Personal blog · garrettdimon.com/journal · on HN as garrettdimonprogrammingweb
Garrett Dimon writes GarrettDimon.com Full, a personal blog at garrettdimon.com about programming and web. Since 2008, 26 different Hacker News readers have linked it 47 times, most often “The Journey of Selling Sifter”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Garrett Dimon's posts on how companies and communities handle public disputes, and on URL shorteners. One commenter also cites the blog as a model for minimal, reading-friendly design.
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.
Garrett Dimon's digital garden with ruminations on Rails, Ruby, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and life as an amputee.
Most-linked posts?
- The Journey of Selling Sifter4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-08-18
- The Downside of Permanent (links and url shortening)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-04-13
- Can you afford a pay cut? The personal finances side of starting a company2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-10-29
- Data Modeling SaaS Entitlements and Pricing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-21
- Handling Things2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-04-01
What Hacker News says?
I'm a solo founder and have been working on Sifter ( http://sifterapp.com ) for going on 4 years now. It's been live for about 3 of those years, and I've been full-time for a little over a year. My salary is about 80% of what I was making working full-time elsewhere, maybe a little lower when you factor in health insurance, but the work is exponentially more fulfilling. I do my best to share my thoughts on the ups a…
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on “Ask HN: Small product, single founder success stories? ”Submitted Being a Solo Founder of a 24x7 Hosted Web Application as a story · 110 points
HN discussionI have finally hit my pre-Sifter salary. We could have technically afforded it a while ago, but we only recently decided to make the adjustment. Of course, that was my salary 5 years ago, and from what I've gathered, I'm still way under what I could be making elsewhere--especially if you factor in benefits. Keith, my partner, has never been full-time. He's always been involved at about 5-10 hours per month, and that…
Comment linking /post/34571624540/can-you-afford-a-pay-cut
on “Bootstrapping a Software Product”Submitted Work/Life Balance as a story · 78 points
HN discussionAlso worth reading is the article from Garrett Dimon at the end: http://garrettdimon.com/archives/2009/3/31/handling_things/ Makes some good points about what would have been a better way to handle this, including this particularly important truism: Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by ignorance.
Comment linking /archives/2009/3/31/handling_things/
on “GetSatisfaction's open letter to Jason Fried”Submitted Data Modeling SaaS Entitlements and Pricing as a story · 51 points
HN discussionOr a completely different take on this "issue". http://garrettdimon.com/archives/2009/4/13/the_downside_of_p...
Comment linking /archives/2009/4/13/the_downside_of_permanent/
on “URL Shorteners – the herpes of the web”Submitted Starting is easier than sustaining. as a story · 39 points
HN discussionAs pretty as it is, I'm always on the fence about overcooked designs like this for a blog - blogs always have more html to download than a typical static page anyway and I just want to get reading. I based my current site design around minimal reading-friendly sites like: http://informationarchitects.jp/ http://garrettdimon.com/
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on “Good Vector-based Web Designs”Submitted The Neverending Story as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted Handling Things as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on Business Models (from the founder of Sifter) as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Downside of Permanent (links and url shortening) as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can you afford a pay cut? The personal finances side of starting a company as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quitting Analytics as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Evolution of a Header (visual design related) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Create Generators that People Will Use as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Recurring revenue vs. disability insurance as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Journey of Selling Sifter as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Journey of Selling Sifter as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted All I Ever Wanted as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Early Days of Founding Sifter as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Will it last? - The sustainability of SaaS apps as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Answering to Customers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Organizing Rails Code with ActiveRecord Associated Objects as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data Modeling Entitlements and Pricing for SaaS Applications as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Guide to Creating Custom Rails Generators as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Journey of Selling Sifter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Journey of Selling Sifter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quality vs. Shipping as a story · 2 points
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