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Jonathan Libov
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Jonathan Libov writes Whoops, a personal blog at whoo.ps about startups and culture. Since 2013, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 75 times, most often “Futures of text”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Jonathan Libov's essay "Stupid Apps and Changing the World" on whether apps dismissed as trivial, such as Facebook, Twitter and the iPhone, end up changing the world. One commenter discusses this claim.
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.
Jonathan Libov's website and blog
Most-linked posts?
- Futures of text6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2015-02-25
- The Bloomberg Terminal – Biggest SaaS and Social Network5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-03-23
- Future of Text2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-12-02
- Time is money is equity is growth2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-04-01
- The Cognitive Drain theory of why mid-tier paid apps don't sell2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-09-30
What Hacker News says?
I wrote up my thoughts on this: http://whoo.ps/2013/09/29/cognitive-drain-theory-of-why-paid... Slightly revising my position: The order in which people would choose this doesn't really matter
Comment linking /2013/09/29/cognitive-drain-theory-of-why-paid-apps-don-t-sell
on “Underscore Price Dynamics”Submitted Flat design is great for mediocre designers like me as a story · 168 points
HN discussionFacebook, Twitter, reddit, the Internet itself, the iPhone, and on and on and on—most people dismissed these things as incremental or trivial when they first came out. I would say Twitter and Facebook in particular are still are incremental and trivial as billion dollar companies and always will be. The web is a dumbed down version of older hypertext systems and hasn't shaken that legacy in 25 years. The real proble…
Comment linking /2015/02/23/futures-of-text
on “Stupid Apps and Changing the World”Submitted Futures of text as a story · 69 points
HN discussionThere are really two hypotheses: 1) _Teenagers in general_ do not use Facebook (which does _not_ rule out that they will become avid Facebook users once they grow out of their teenage years) 2) _Today's teenagers_ disinterest in Facebook is fundamentally different than it was for teenagers' of several years ago (which would suggest they'll never get attached to Facebook the way previous teenagers once did, and there…
Comment linking /2013/03/04/teens-go-where-identity-isnt
on “Facebook Is Losing Teens”Submitted Futures of text as a story · 17 points
HN discussionDon't judge a Bitcoin by its price: http://whoo.ps/2015/01/08/dont-judge-a-bitcoin-by-its-price
Comment linking /2015/01/08/dont-judge-a-bitcoin-by-its-price
on “Bitcoin revealed: a Ponzi scheme for redistributing wealth”Submitted The Bloomberg Terminal – Biggest SaaS and Social Network as a story · 11 points
HN discussionA lot of people who read this post a few months latched too tightly onto the idea that SMS is somehow always a better interaction model than a UI. It's not. But there's a time and place where SMS is just the right way to notify someone or communicate with someone about something: http://whoo.ps/2015/05/27/what-sms-is-good-for
Comment linking /2015/05/27/what-sms-is-good-for
on “Futures of text”Submitted Shutting down a product after acquihire is not something to celebrate with users as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted I left a comment on his blog and he hired me as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted All the snobbish reasons I won't go Android as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Three easy steps to help non-designers make an MVP look great as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI still doesn't understand memes as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should you accept a pull request from a very bad person? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bloomberg Terminal: The best product too few people have ever used as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted You merely adopted dark mode as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Satoshi decided to use base58 instead of base64 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The End of App Store Milestones as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted This is not a comment. What is? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Brastrap - A Chrome extension that mucks up Twitter Bootstrap-py sites as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vibecoding is skeuomorphic because code generation is slow as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating and Playing Games (2022) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cynical Optimism for Crypto as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Futures of Text – Messaging UIs (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Futures of Text - Messaging UIs (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted You merely adopted dark mode: The best product too few people have ever used as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On knowledge that evolves in software and hardware, in organisms and machines as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Future of Text as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A big forking deal as a story · 2 points
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