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Ian Landsman

Personal blog · ianlandsman.comstartupsbusinessprogramming

Ian Landsman's personal blog at ianlandsman.com covers startups, business and programming. Since 2009, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Shady Tactics in Our Midst”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-24, and you can follow it by feed.

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24mentions?
22HN people?
2009–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2016

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The only linked post is Ian Landsman's 2012 piece on PHP, which one commenter shares as 'my 2 cents' in a thread about PHP's future. The comments say nothing about the writing itself.

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?

  1. Shady Tactics in Our Midst
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-11-14
  2. HelpSpot Turns 20
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-24
  3. Ian Landsman's response to Jeff Atwood about PHP
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-06-29

What Hacker News says?

  1. ianlandsman · 2012-06-29
    My 2 cents: http://ianlandsman.com/2012/06/29/PHP

    Comment linking /2012/06/29/PHP

    on “Coding Horror: The PHP Singularity”
  2. rshetty · 2012-05-27

    Submitted Laravel : A New PHP Framework as a story · 92 points

    HN discussion
  3. craigkerstiens · 2012-05-27

    Submitted Moving from programmer to entrepreneur as a story · 84 points

    HN discussion
  4. joedev · 2012-02-06

    Submitted Building an App in 30 Days ... Is Stupid [2008] as a story · 24 points

    HN discussion
  5. craigkerstiens · 2013-01-10

    Submitted How we built BeSnappy.com for $317,000 as a story · 23 points

    HN discussion
  6. jhunter1016 · 2025-10-25

    Submitted HelpSpot Turns 20 as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. mjwhansen · 2025-10-24

    Submitted HelpSpot Turns 20 as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. dirtyaura · 2016-12-19

    Submitted Shady Tactics in our Midst as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. ericbarnes · 2016-12-06

    Submitted Securing the Five-Figure Sale – Learn how to enter the enterprise market as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. jasim · 2016-11-27

    Submitted Shady Tactics in Our Midst as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. DeusExMachina · 2016-01-29

    Submitted The hubris bubble as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. ilandsman · 2015-01-04

    Submitted Neo Programmers as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. ianlandsman1 · 2014-09-13

    Submitted Why Apple Watch Is All About the iPad as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. ilandsman · 2014-09-05

    Submitted 69 Bootstrapping Resources as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. HeinZawHtet · 2014-09-03

    Submitted Wufoo as CMS as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  16. robinwarren · 2016-11-29

    Submitted Shady tactics in our midst as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. passenger · 2016-11-16

    Submitted Shady Tactics in our Midst as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. malditojavi · 2014-05-21

    Submitted How we built besnappy for $317000 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Inversechi · 2012-02-22

    Submitted A path to Laravel PHP as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. royjacobs · 2016-11-15

    Submitted Shady onboarding tactics as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. adamwathan · 2016-11-14

    Submitted Shady Tactics in our Midst – “Conventional wisdom” that's probably illegal as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. bradpineau · 2012-07-02

    Submitted Ian Landsman's response to Jeff Atwood about PHP as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. pchristensen · 2009-11-02

    Submitted HelpSpots Website Evolution - anyone know of others like this? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. terrellm · 2009-10-28

    Submitted The Transition Between Small and Medium as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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