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Greater Dan Or Equal To
Personal blog · greaterdanorequalto.comprogrammingstartups
Greater Dan Or Equal To is a personal blog at greaterdanorequalto.com about programming and startups. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Evaluating Modest SaaS Business Ideas”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one comment links to this blog's writing, and it is not about the writing. The commenter tells their own story of building a document-processing side project while raising a family, in a thread on starting a startup in your 30s.
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.
i got some opinions, don't i
Most-linked posts?
- Evaluating Modest SaaS Business Ideas2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-10
- I've Soured on Open Source2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-08
What Hacker News says?
I sincerely worry about a future when most people act in this same manner. You have - for now - sufficient experience and understanding to be able to review the AI's code and decide if it was doing what you wanted it to. But what about when you've spent months just blindly accepting" what the AI tells you? Are you going to be familiar enough with the project anymore to catch its little mistakes? Or worse, what about…
Comment linking /ai-code-generation-as-an-agent-of-tech-debt-creation/
on “I Am Tired of AI”Submitted Evaluating Modest SaaS Business Ideas as a story · 365 points
HN discussionhttps://greaterdanorequalto.com/ I mean, the name's pretty good, I think, so you should at least read the name. But I realized that a lot of things that I take as common sense in the realm of programming and entrepreneurship are actually hard-won knowledge that I've gained from being immersed in those subjects for a a couple decades. I started the blog last year focused mainly on the entrepreneurship side, specifica…
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on “Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?”Submitted Don't Waste Time on User Onboarding as a story · 208 points
HN discussion> Are all startups at my age generally side hustles that become profitable enough to quit my day job? Maybe yes. But that's only the first step. 40yo here, married, 3 kids (5yo, 3yo, 1yo), and a mortgage. I am more in the risk-averse side. I was a CIO ('I' as in 'investment') in a family office. In 2019 I started building a document processing service (eg merge, encrypt PDFs) as a side hustle. It grew slowly and ste…
Comment linking /evaluating-modest-saas-business-ideas/
on “Ask HN: How do you start a startup in your 30s when you have wife/kids/mortgage?”Submitted I've Soured on Open Source as a story · 37 points
HN discussionSimple, really. It's not actually helping people to code better: https://greaterdanorequalto.com/ai-code-generation-as-an-age...
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on “If AI is helping people code better, why aren't products getting better?”Submitted AI code generation as an agent of tech debt creation as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttps://greaterdanorequalto.com/ Sometimes I post fun stuff, sometimes I post technical stuff. Right now, I'm nearing the finish on a post about how much I despise Unit Testing (at least the way it's commonly done right now) and an alternative I wish more people would take. It's not really a new topic, but it's not one with nearly enough traction, so I'm just doing my part.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted I've Soured on Open Source as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kicking the “For Loop” Habit as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted If You Don't Respect Your Users, You Don't Deserve Their Respect as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trial-to-Paid Conversion: Your SaaS Superhero as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Probably Have Too Many Free Trials as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Probably Have Too Many Free Trials as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who Cares About Trial-to-Paid Conversion? as a story · 1 points
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