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Jons Mostovojs
Personal blog · memorici.de/postsstartupsprogramming
Jons Mostovojs writes Memoricide, a personal blog at memorici.de about startups and programming. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “I Tried to Bootstrap a Startup”. 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
Linked in an HN thread on choosing Ruby on Rails for startups. The only comment is a personal anecdote about a startup that failed after using Elixir like Rails, with no comment on the writing itself.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- I Tried to Bootstrap a Startup2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-27
What Hacker News says?
"Still" implies that one would have chosen it before. Ironically, one of the reasons my startup died was using Elixir as if it was Rails[1]. Even aside from type safety considerations: in RoR variable bindings appear out of thin air! Imagine onboarding a new developer – not only do they need to learn the arcane language, but then they need to learn a bunch of non-hygienic macros! I remember the lightbulb moment when…
Comment linking /posts/pre-mortem/
on “Ask HN: Would you still choose Ruby on Rails for a startup in 2025?”Submitted All You Wanted to Know About Stdio as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Tried to Bootstrap a Startup as a story · 1 points
HN discussion