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John Nunemaker
Personal blog · johnnunemaker.comprogrammingbusiness
John Nunemaker's personal blog at johnnunemaker.com covers programming and business. Since 2014, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “How to build an app acquired by GitHub, buy it back, then sell it again”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Thoughts on building software and software businesses. Owner of Box Out Sports and Very Good Software (Fireside, Flipper). Previously GitHub. Creator of HTTParty, Flipper, and more.
Most-linked posts?
- How to build an app acquired by GitHub, buy it back, then sell it again5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-04-16
- Shrinking a Postgres Table4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-11-28
- Rails Postgres Native Partitioning3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-01-07
- Fewer and Faster2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-06-06
What Hacker News says?
Submitted Analytics at GitHub as a story · 125 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to build an app acquired by GitHub, buy it back, then sell it again as a story · 46 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to build an app, get acquired by GitHub, buy it back and then sell it again as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shrinking a Postgres Table as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't Make a Human Do What AI Is Amazing At as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shrinking a Postgres Table as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shrinking a Postgres Table as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to get acquired by GitHub, buy an app back from them and then sell it again as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rails: How to Reduce Friction at the Authorization Layer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Acquiring Fireside as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rails: Postgres Native Partitioning as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rails Postgres Native Partitioning as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Speaker Deck Story as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The hurdles behind Flipper.enable(:cloud) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rails: Postgres Partial Indexing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Resilience in Ruby as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fewer and Faster as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fewer and Faster as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Anti-Decay Programming as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shrinking a Postgres Table as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Flipper 1.0.0 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rails: Postgres Native Partitioning as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Build an app, get acquired by GitHub, buy it back from GitHub and sell it again as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Resilience in Ruby: Shell Commands and More as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Postgres Distinct On as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Flippin' Features at Runtime as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pain and Programming as a story · 1 points
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