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Good Enough
Company blog · goodenough.us/blog · on HN as bjhessprogrammingwebstartups
Good Enough is the company blog at goodenough.us, writing about programming, web and startups. Since 2023, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Bad Ideas Are Fun”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-04, 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 Good Enough, a small collective of friends making playful software and art projects, such as the Jelly shared inbox, Pika blogging software, and a thermal printer guestbook.
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.
Hello, we are Good Enough. We make useful, well-made software, like Pika, Letterbird, and Album Whale. You’re good enough, too.
Most-linked posts?
- Bad Ideas Are Fun3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-08-31
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-06
- Turbo Stream and Personalized Content2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-10
What Hacker News says?
The short story is that Good Enough has put a handful of (hopefully) delightful things into the world: https://goodenough.us/ Putting things into the world means getting emails. Being a team means juggling said emails about things amongst several people. Enter the Shared Fastmail Account. "Oh! A new email. Click. Oh, this isn’t really for me. Mark as unread. Or did someone else already read this, mark as unread, and…
Comment linking /
on “Show HN: Jelly – A simpler shared inbox for small teams”Submitted You Need Customers to Succeed in Small Business as a story · 43 points
HN discussionI am not your target audience but I love the branding and all of the other stuff you make on https://goodenough.us/ . The world needs more cutesy, thought through mini project factories like you. As for pricing, 60$ seems very steep. I disregard the 6$/mo because aside from trying out for a month, who would host a blog for less than a year? But turns out this is the exact pricing a write.as (which is nearly identica…
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on “Show HN: Pika – Simple blogging software”Submitted Jelly: The simplest way to jam on email as a team as a story · 6 points
HN discussionHi guys, thanks so much for all the love you're showing our thermal printer project! As you've probably seen, the sudden HN traffic has been a bit overwhelming for our site. I'm with Good Enough, a small collective of six friends. We're not venture backed, and our guestbook is really just a little art project. We honestly made it for the fun of it, and it's not for profit, and it wasn't designed to scale. :) Please…
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on “"We have a thermal printer hooked up to the internet, you can send us a doodle"”Submitted Bad Ideas Are Fun as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Good Enough Is Reorganizing as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bad Ideas Are Fun as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Configure Our Rails Local CI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We're Shutting Down Yay.Boo and Ponder as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rails, CloundFront CDN, and Imgproxy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Actual Customer Support Is Remarkable as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bad Ideas Are Fun as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted There's No "A" or "I" in "Jelly" as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Turbo Stream and Personalized Content as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Turbo Stream and Personalized Content as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted TIL: Don’t forget your Web Manifest file as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cool URLs Don't Die as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted TIL: Deploying a Sinatra App to Render.com as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted TIL: Turbo Stream broadcasting needs default_url_options to be set as a story · 1 points
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