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George Sequeira
Personal blog · georgesequeira.com/writing · on HN as georgesequeirastartupsbusiness
George Sequeira's personal blog at georgesequeira.com covers startups and business. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Zapier: A $5B Unbundling Opportunity”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked posts argue that Google Search lags behind competitors in code, cooking and travel. One commenter discusses how focused vertical search sites could erode Google's general search.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Zapier: A $5B Unbundling Opportunity2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-12
What Hacker News says?
Wasn't there just an article about how horizontal services get eaten away by focused rivals once a market has been identified? [1] Like Indeed doing job search better than Craiglist. I wonder if Google isn't ripe for that sort of competitor. I can think of a bunch of verticals that could easily get their own dedicated search site, including cooking. Bing and others are trying to beat Google in generic search, and it…
Comment linking /writing/zapier-the-5b-unbundling-opportunity/
on “Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel”Submitted Zapier: A $5B Unbundling Opportunity as a story · 239 points
HN discussionSubmitted Breaking into B2B SaaS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Breaking into B2B SaaS (2021) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Finding startup ideas that predict the future as a story · 1 points
HN discussion