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jazzychad's blog is a personal blog at blog.jazzychad.net about startups and programming. Since 2011, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 35 times, most often “Fouling Out and Moving On (re: Notifo Shutdown)”. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.

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35mentions?
7HN people?
2011–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 14 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Posts by a founder whose startup, Notifo, shut down, covering why startups fail, the single-founder experience, and his earlier interest in the Twitter space. Commenters link them in discussions of startup failure.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Fouling Out and Moving On (re: Notifo Shutdown)
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-09-08
  2. Applying to YC as a Single Founder
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-08-31
  3. Twitter and Me
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-03-14
  4. Startups Are Hard
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-05-02

What Hacker News says?

  1. dools · 2014-06-24Recommends
    This is a "fail story" that stuck with me -- wish I'd been able to suggest it when you were looking for stories similar to your own! http://blog.jazzychad.net/2011/05/02/startups-are-hard.html Also here are some Mixergy.com interviews that I've enjoyed from failed entrepreneurs: http://mixergy.com/interviews/adyin-mirzaee-fluidware-interv... http://mixergy.com/interviews/chris-snook-no-limit-publishin... http://mixe…

    Comment linking /2011/05/02/startups-are-hard.html

    on “My startup failed, and this is what it feels like”
  2. tlb · 2011-05-02

    Submitted Startups Are Hard as a story · 410 points

    HN discussion
  3. jazzychad · 2012-07-26
    Yep, totally agree. I even wrote a very similar rant here several weeks ago: http://blog.jazzychad.net/2012/05/28/startups-fix-your-blog-...

    Comment linking /2012/05/28/startups-fix-your-blog-links.html

    on “Why Do Startups Do This?”
  4. jazzychad · 2011-09-08

    Submitted Fouling Out and Moving On (re: Notifo Shutdown) as a story · 190 points

    HN discussion
  5. jazzychad · 2013-04-17
    yet another sinner of linking the main site logo back to the blog: http://blog.jazzychad.net/2012/05/28/startups-fix-your-blog-... - please fix!

    Comment linking /2012/05/28/startups-fix-your-blog-links.html

    on “How We Bootstrapped a $20K Website into a $4M/year Business ”
  6. jazzychad · 2012-03-24

    Submitted Startups, Fix Your "From" Field as a story · 165 points

    HN discussion
  7. DanielRibeiro · 2011-09-08
    The founder's post: http://blog.jazzychad.net/2011/09/08/fouling-out-moving-on.h...

    Comment linking /2011/09/08/fouling-out-moving-on.html

    on “Notifo (YC W10) Will be Shutting Down”
  8. jazzychad · 2011-08-31

    Submitted Applying to YC as a Single Founder as a story · 158 points

    HN discussion
  9. jazzychad · 2014-08-28
    And still no webhooks - http://blog.jazzychad.net/2012/08/05/ifttt-needs-webhooks-st... This one thing would blow up usage by developers across the board.

    Comment linking /2012/08/05/ifttt-needs-webhooks-stat.html

    on “With $30M More in Hand, IFTTT Looks to the Internet of Things”
  10. jazzychad · 2011-03-14

    Submitted Twitter and Me as a story · 158 points

    HN discussion
  11. roneil · 2011-09-09
    I'd love to hear more about the single founder experience too, could you tell us more about that or write up a post about that? Edit: I just found a post about your experience on your blog, thanks for writing about it already. For others who are curious about this, see here: http://blog.jazzychad.net/2011/08/31/applying-to-yc-as-a-sin...

    Comment linking /2011/08/31/applying-to-yc-as-a-single-founder.html

    on “Fouling Out and Moving On (re: Notifo Shutdown)”
  12. jazzychad · 2013-01-01

    Submitted All of my side-projects from 2012 as a story · 147 points

    HN discussion
  13. jazzychad · 2011-09-08
    You may have already seen these, but here are two: - http://blog.jazzychad.net/2011/05/02/startups-are-hard.html - http://blog.jazzychad.net/2011/08/31/applying-to-yc-as-a-sin... I have a couple more that are written, but now is not the time to post them.

    Comment linking /2011/08/31/applying-to-yc-as-a-single-founder.html

    on “Fouling Out and Moving On (re: Notifo Shutdown)”
  14. jazzychad · 2011-03-27

    Submitted Hacking Twitter's Javascript as a story · 114 points

    HN discussion
  15. lkrubner · 2011-09-08Recommends
    Back in March, Chad took the time to write up a history of his developing interest in this space, and I find that history gives a lot of context to what must be a tough decision now: http://blog.jazzychad.net/2011/03/14/twitter-and-me.html

    Comment linking /2011/03/14/twitter-and-me.html

    on “Fouling Out and Moving On (re: Notifo Shutdown)”
  16. jazzychad · 2012-08-05

    Submitted IFTTT Needs Webhooks, Stat as a story · 82 points

    HN discussion
  17. jazzychad · 2012-04-01
    I built a Posterous export tool that backs-up all your Posterous data (posts, images, video, audio) after the Twitter acquisition announcement. http://exportmyposts.com/ How I built it: http://blog.jazzychad.net/2012/03/21/launching-exportmyposts...

    Comment linking /2012/03/21/launching-exportmyposts-in-four-days.html

    on “Ask HN: What did you build in March?”
  18. jazzychad · 2012-12-04

    Submitted A Better Makefile for Bootstrap as a story · 66 points

    HN discussion
  19. thomson · 2012-11-21Recommends
    Just wanted to echo common sentiments that your blog post was a very well-written and yet personal treatise on how and why startups fail. Another good pair of posts comes from Chad Etzel (previously Notifo): http://blog.jazzychad.net/2011/05/02/startups-are-hard.html http://blog.jazzychad.net/2011/09/08/fouling-out-moving-on.h...

    Comment linking /2011/09/08/fouling-out-moving-on.html

    on “Ask HN: Survivor Bias. Why don't we focus more on startups that fail?”
  20. jazzychad · 2011-06-10

    Submitted Announcing BlogFire - new from Notifo (YC W10) as a story · 64 points

    HN discussion
  21. jazzychad · 2013-02-19
    Plleeeaaaaase change your logo (and "Home") to link to your main homepage instead of your blog's root... more: http://blog.jazzychad.net/2012/05/28/startups-fix-your-blog-...

    Comment linking /2012/05/28/startups-fix-your-blog-links.html

    on “Be careful with your random tokens”
  22. jazzychad · 2012-05-28

    Submitted Startups, Fix Your Blog Links as a story · 56 points

    HN discussion
  23. jazzychad · 2011-04-22

    Submitted VorePad - Convore for iPad as a story · 56 points

    HN discussion
  24. jazzychad · 2012-03-12

    Submitted Create Your Own Posterous with Jekyll, PHP, Mailgun, and S3 as a story · 48 points

    HN discussion
  25. jazzychad · 2012-03-16

    Submitted Joining Exec as a story · 39 points

    HN discussion
  26. jazzychad · 2013-07-21

    Submitted So, you want to hire me? My response to recruiter spam. as a story · 34 points

    HN discussion
  27. jazzychad · 2012-08-01

    Submitted Array Iteration Interview Problem as a story · 30 points

    HN discussion
  28. jazzychad · 2011-04-07

    Submitted GramFrame for iPad - Behind the App as a story · 30 points

    HN discussion
  29. jazzychad · 2013-07-30

    Submitted Implementing Letterpress UI in UIKit as a story · 27 points

    HN discussion
  30. jazzychad · 2012-01-26

    Submitted My Mixergy Interview - Chad Etzel, Notifo as a story · 15 points

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