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Jason Putorti

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Jason Putorti's personal blog at jasonputorti.com covers startups, business and design. Since 2010, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “How Mint.com Acquired 1.5M+ Users”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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12mentions?
12HN people?
2010–2012first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2012

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

Why HN links it

The only comment is unrelated advice on driving traffic to a website through search, paid or organic links, and direct visits. It does not discuss the blog's writing, so the linked posts' content is unclear.

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. How Mint.com Acquired 1.5M+ Users
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-03-25

What Hacker News says?

  1. ohashi · 2010-04-03
    Doesn't sound like you want to improve your website, just drive traffic. Basically you've got 3 major ways to drive traffic: search - paid or organic links - from anywhere, anyone type in - people going to your site directly, often connected to offline advertising you're probably best of scaling one/both of the first two options. organic seo rankings is going to take time, you should spend maybe couple hours a day b…

    Comment linking /post/472866002/how-mint-com-acquired-1-5m-users

    on “Ask HN: What can I do to improve my website?”
  2. faramarz · 2010-03-25

    Submitted How Mint.com Acquired 1.5M+ Users as a story · 100 points

    HN discussion
  3. turoczy · 2011-04-27

    Submitted Noah's Original Mint.com Marketing Proposal as a story · 62 points

    HN discussion
  4. matthewphiong · 2011-07-29

    Submitted Mint vs. Wesabe: A B-School Case Study as a story · 20 points

    HN discussion
  5. satishmreddy · 2010-09-10

    Submitted Silicon Valley Vs Madison Ave as a story · 20 points

    HN discussion
  6. spif · 2011-03-23

    Submitted Engineering vs design as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  7. revorad · 2012-01-17

    Submitted From Mint to Votizen as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. spking · 2012-08-05

    Submitted The Paypal Mafia is the last one as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. kmfrk · 2012-02-03

    Submitted "I think Soundrop['s logo] was ‘inspired’ by Rdio." as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. fufulabs · 2011-12-03

    Submitted How to recruit that one great designer as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. michael_fine · 2012-04-27

    Submitted A Brief History of Votizen as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. nikunjk · 2012-04-22

    Submitted A Brief History of Votizen by Jason Putorti as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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