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Joe Cieplinski

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Joe Cieplinski's personal blog at joecieplinski.com covers design and programming. Since 2012, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Outsourcing Your Online Presence”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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15mentions?
13HN people?
2012–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Commenters link Joe Cieplinski's posts on Apple's FaceTime (its lack of openness and spec publication) and on marketing indie apps. The comments cite or link them without judging the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Outsourcing Your Online Presence
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-06-02

What Hacker News says?

  1. There was some discussion regarding the Facetime and open sourcing it on HN a while back, I can't find the source this quickly, but it was mentioned that Apple found itself on the barrel end of a lawsuit gun... and that because of that they have not improved Facetime much, nor innovated on it, or published any of the spec. --- Edit: Found this: http://www.joecieplinski.com/blog/2013/03/30/hey-apple-where... http://w…

    Comment linking /blog/2013/03/30/hey-apple-wheres-the-fire/

    on “Our XMPP services at DuckDuckGo”
  2. Submitted I Now Have a Cardiologist as a story · 231 points

    HN discussion
  3. Dan and other indie developers talk a lot about the importance of doing your own marketing, even if you are in the App Store. And they also underline how being listed in the App Store isn’t close to the results of proper marketing. http://dancounsell.com/articles/thoughts-on-increasing-app-r... http://www.joecieplinski.com/blog/2014/12/22/building-a-show...

    Comment linking /blog/2014/12/22/building-a-showroom/

    on “Benefits of Selling Outside the Mac App Store”
  4. Submitted The Wrist Business as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Good vs. Better at Bad as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted In My Pocket as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Thirteen (Review of 13“ 2017 MacBook Pro) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Outsourcing Your Online Presence as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Regarding the Latest App Store Rejections as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted One Size Fits Some, on App pricing as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Designing Better Touch Bar Experiences as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Outsourcing Your Online Presence as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Thoughts on the Hello Again Event as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted OmniPresence as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Getting Lucky and Still Failing - Don't Be Outwitted as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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