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Josh Breinlinger

Personal blog · acrowdedspace.comstartupsbusiness

Josh Breinlinger writes Tumblr, a personal blog at acrowdedspace.com about startups and business. Since 2012, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “The rebundling of Craigslist”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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21mentions?
12HN people?
2012–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2012

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

Why HN links it

Josh Breinlinger's posts on unbundling and re-bundling products and on Firefox experiment ideas, such as turning articles into a personal podcast. Commenters cite them when discussing product bundling.

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.

My name is Josh Breinlinger. I'm a VC at Turtle Ventures, a marketplace fund for turtles -- highly-defensible, long-living creatures. www.turtlevc.co

Most-linked posts?

  1. The rebundling of Craigslist
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-10-17
  2. Marketplace Rake Factors
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-03-30

What Hacker News says?

  1. > unbundling and re-bundling: https://acrowdedspace.com/post/166470695392/the-re-bundling-...

    Comment linking /post/166470695392/the-re-bundling-of-craigslist

    on “Teamspeak 5 to be based on the Matrix protocol”
  2. Submitted VCs are liars. And so am I. as a story · 156 points

    HN discussion
  3. It's fun to map each idea into a separate product. Reminds me of Craigslist's re-bundling [0]. From the post: > Personal Podcast: > [...] When on an article, you can generate an audio version that will be added to the feed > [...] just send/text the link to add it to your preferred podcast app That's exactly what we've built at https://www.narro.co - with Firefox support via good ol' vanilla bookmarklet. -- [0]: htt…

    Comment linking /post/166470695392/the-rebundling-of-craigslist

    on “Firefox Experiments I Would Have Liked to Try”
  4. Submitted Equity crowdfunding is doomed as an asset class as a story · 25 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted How to get the truth from VCs as a story · 23 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Meet Jackson Square Ventures as a story · 19 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted What type of marketplace are you? as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Lessons for VCs from the Oracle as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted The rebundling of Craigslist as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted VCs are liars. And so am I as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted 5-star Feedback Systems are Broken as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Vertical or Horizontal as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Understanding Network Effect Strength as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Marketplace Rake Factors as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Marketplace Rake Factors as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted The Rebundling of Craigslist as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Vertical or Horizontal #Marketplace as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Top Nine Misaligned Marketplace Incentives as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted MARKETPLACES ARE EATING FIRMS (UNEDITED) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted What the On-Demand Economy Teaches Us as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted All Introductions are Not Created Equal as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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