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Jeff Chang writes Growth Engineering Blog, a personal blog at growthengblog.com about business and data. Since 2018, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “The most important growth metric for early startups”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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19mentions?
8HN people?
2018–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2018

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

Why HN links it

Only one comment, which lists product-market fit resources and links out without judging this blog. The comments say nothing about the writing itself, so the linked posts are about startup product-market fit.

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.

Growth engineering blog written by Jeff Chang, a growth tech lead at Pinterest. Read about conversions, SEO, user engagement and retention, mobile acquisition, AB experiments, data analysis, growth hacking, and more!

Most-linked posts?

  1. The most important growth metric for early startups
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-06
  2. How to build a high impact growth team – Structure and Hiring
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-07-12
  3. The best metric for determining quantitative product market fit
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-08-08

What Hacker News says?

  1. "Default Alive" - http://www.paulgraham.com/aord.html "pre-product market fit" - links to a list of resources: - The only thing that matters by Marc Andreessen https://pmarchive.com/guide_to_startups_part4.html - What is “product/market fit” by Emmett Shear: https://twitter.com/eshear/status/1155180521485242368?lang=e... - Andy Rachleff on “How to Know If You’ve Got Product Market Fit” https://greatness.floodgate.co…

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    on “Y Combinator's Message to Founders”
  2. Submitted SEO for early stage startups – Must-dos and FAQ as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Metric for determining quantitative product market fit as a story · 2 points

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  4. Submitted The best metric for determining quantitative product market fit as a story · 2 points

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  5. Submitted The most important growth metric for early startups as a story · 2 points

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  6. Submitted Bottoms up growth teams are the most effective growth teams at scale as a story · 2 points

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  7. Submitted Why LTV/CAC is not a great metric for early startups as a story · 1 points

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  8. Submitted 5 Must-do's for building great SaaS SEO blogs as a story · 1 points

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  9. Submitted The most important growth metric for early startups as a story · 1 points

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  10. Submitted Part 2 – Referrals – The 2 most popular growth channels used by unicorn startups as a story · 1 points

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  11. Submitted [Growth Eng] the 2 most popular growth channels for unicorn consumer companies as a story · 1 points

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  12. Submitted [Growth Eng Blog] Setting achievable and relevant growth goals as a story · 1 points

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  13. Submitted [Growth Eng Blog] the Intent/Ease Framework for Conversion Optimization as a story · 1 points

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  14. Submitted Metrics On-call – Building a high impact growth team as a story · 1 points

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  15. Submitted 3 major sources of great experiment ideas – Growth Eng Blog as a story · 1 points

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  16. Submitted How to build a high impact growth team – Structure and Hiring as a story · 1 points

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  17. Submitted The 4 most important factors when evaluating growth opportunities as a story · 1 points

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  18. Submitted How to build a high impact growth team – Structure and Hiring as a story · 1 points

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  19. Submitted Intro to growth engineering – learn how to prioritize the right projects as a story · 1 points

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