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ikirigin on Svbtle
Personal blog · blog.kirigin.comstartupscareerproductivity
ikirigin on Svbtle is a personal blog at blog.kirigin.com about startups, career and productivity. Since 2013, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 30 times, most often “I’m Going To Give My Startup Ideas Away”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
A Svbtle blog where the author posts startup ideas he is giving away, such as personal analytics, used car leasing, photo ideas and robot cars. One commenter notes the post is from 2013.
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.
ikirigin | CEO at YesGraph. Previously Dropbox, Facebook, and Tipjoy (YC W08)
Most-linked posts?
- I’m Going To Give My Startup Ideas Away2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-10-18
- Startup Idea: The Future of Digital Work2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-01-07
- Startup Idea: Robot Cars2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-03-24
What Hacker News says?
Many people enjoy working long hours if they feel the work is impactful. Hustle by itself is pretty distasteful though. It is a humblebrag. I actually just published a tangential blog post, mainly focusing on whether more people should work less while focusing on other things in life that matter. http://blog.kirigin.com/10x
Comment linking /10x
on “Stop Glorifying Hard Work and Long Hours”Submitted Startup Idea: Solve Personal Analytics as a story · 155 points
HN discussionI wrote up some free startup ideas around digital work. http://blog.kirigin.com/digital-work tldr: smartphones are a platform to learn skills, to facilitate a network of contractors, and to do work. Put that together for something powerful.
Comment linking /digital-work
on “Request for Startups: News, Jobs, and Democracy”Submitted Startup Idea: Robot Cars as a story · 99 points
HN discussionWithout a mapping of a company's score to its value, these ratings are non-sensical. Considering probably only public data is the input and the actual function isn't open, there is great reason to doubt the rating. I've made a similar exploration of W13. My scoring is my personal biased judgement. The whole effort isn't to get a US News Top 100 list, but to better understand the rating system itself. http://blog.kir…
Comment linking /angel
on “Strikingly, BuildZoom and Bitnami Lead Hottest Y Combinator Winter 2013 Startups”Submitted Should you even be an investor? as a story · 46 points
HN discussionsomebody should add [2013] there. For the post was made on 10/18/13. (on page 2 of the blog) These are the ideas he's posted so far: http://blog.kirigin.com/personal-analytics http://blog.kirigin.com/startup-idea-used-car-leasing http://blog.kirigin.com/photo-ideas http://blog.kirigin.com/robot-cars
Comment linking /robot-cars
on “I’m Going to Give My Startup Ideas Away”Submitted Startup Idea: Used Car Leasing as a story · 36 points
HN discussionThis is in response to my post here http://blog.kirigin.com/10x I love hearing about how people have tried this out. My conclusion is that judging output is already hard, and it is now even harder because it needs to take into account the whole picture. It isn't just that person's effect on the codebase, but whether they are acting appropriately if they are a leader. In his example, I don't think a CTO should ever b…
Comment linking /10x
on “Making exceptions for exceptional people”Submitted How to Grow, Part 1: Pick a Goal as a story · 27 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are 10X employees working too hard? as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Corp Dev: An Idea Too Bold For Facebook Or Dropbox as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building A Portfolio Community as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted I’m Going To Give My Startup Ideas Away as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sharing Is (Still) Hard as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted If a Startup Founder Does This, Don’t Take the Job as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startup Idea: The Future of Digital Work as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted I’m Going to Give My Startup Ideas Away as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted How To Prepare A Great Presentation as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Story Behind @Dropbox’s 58,449 Retweets as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The 10 Steps of WhatsApp’s Onboarding as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startup Idea: 3 Compelling Photo Experiences as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Secret to Work Life Balance as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted One Surprising Reason You’re Not Getting Honest Feedback as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Corp Dev (2013) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted So Your Friend Launched an App. Here Are 7 Ways to Help as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The New New Foursquare as a story · 1 points
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