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Jeremy A Boyd
Personal blog · jeremyaboyd.com · on HN as jermaustin1programmingstartups
Jeremy A Boyd's personal blog at jeremyaboyd.com covers programming and startups. Since 2016, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 47 times, most often “How I spend way too long coming up with schemes that won't work”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- How I spend way too long coming up with schemes that won't work2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-08-06
- My first industry job: lies, deceptions, and layoffs2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-10-01
- Tricks to Monetize Your Side Projects2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-09-01
- Shutting Down NavHere2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-09-14
- Alternating Current Is Stupid2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-14
- There's a package for that: NPM's single use packages2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-25
- The False Summit – When 90% done becomes 50%2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-27
- YAML Tool Calls2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-30
- I Ran a Voluntary Botnet2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-05
- Sunsetting HN Notify2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-10
What Hacker News says?
The problem with filtering the list to only what is most important or necessary is impossible, but none of them are required. I have launched hundreds of products for myself and clients, and followed a formula for each one, and I believe it had about as good a chance of a successful launch as having a monkey throw darts at a wall. You always end up analyzing what you did when your launch succeeded, and your resultin…
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on “Side Project Marketing Checklist”Submitted Tricks to Monetize Your Side Projects as a story · 651 points
HN discussionAsk and you shall receive: http://jeremyaboyd.com/tricks-to-monetize-your-side-projects...
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on “Show HN: A self-hosted alternative to Trello, Basecamp, and Freshbooks”Submitted My first industry job: lies, deceptions, and layoffs as a story · 251 points
HN discussionNever be afraid to share your idea with the public. People don't care enough to steal it from you, and those that would steal it wont have the industry knowledge or contacts to launch it successfully. See my blog post on using strangers to vet ideas: http://jeremyaboyd.com/validating-your-ideas-on-strangers/
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on “Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?”Submitted Bringing Down Millions of WordPress Sites as a story · 215 points
HN discussionIn a former life, I was a product developer, I now consult other pre-rev/pre-money/broke product developers on features, ux, and marketing. I wrote up a nice narrative a while back [1] on my two "first" products I built. The first "first" was on accident, and the second "first" was... kind of still on accident. [1] http://jeremyaboyd.com/my-first-product-launches/
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on “Ask HN: How did you find an audience for your startup or project?”Submitted How Intuitive Are Macs Really? as a story · 178 points
HN discussionHey guys, I built this with my buddy Austin to scratch an itch we developed when GoDaddy shut off full-path domain redirection without telling us. It went through some growing pains on just my domain (I never knew that my person site got more than 20k requests per day). To read more about why we built it, I wrote up a little blog post[1]. 1: http://jeremyaboyd.com/2018/11/08/why-we-built.html
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on “Show HN: NavHere.com – Simply Domain Forwarding (and short linking)”Submitted Validating your ideas on strangers (2017) as a story · 67 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shutting Down NavHere as a story · 53 points
HN discussionSubmitted My first product launches and how they succeeded and failed as a story · 53 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using 'this' incorrectly in C# as a story · 49 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Simplemvc.js – A highly opinionated web back end framework as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted The False Summit – When 90% done becomes 50% as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sunsetting HN Notify as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I spend way too long coming up with schemes that won't work as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted One Million $1M Ideas as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted There's a package for that: NPM's single use packages as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted My First Industry Job – Lies, Deceptions, and Layoffs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted My First Industry Job: Lies, Deceptions, and Layoffs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shutting down my failing SaaS – NavHere as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jeremy, I think you'll wan't this job as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted There's a Package for That – NPM's Single Use Packages as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gaming the System (2020) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My First Industry Job: Lies, Deceptions, and Layoffs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Accidentally Reported a Fake Terror Incident as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gaming the System:How I spend way too long coming up with schemes that wont work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Validating Your Ideas on Strangers in a Bar as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted That Time I Brought Down Millions of WordPress Sites (2016) as a story · 1 points
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