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Justin Vincent
Personal blog · justinvincent.comprogrammingstartupsweb
Justin Vincent's personal blog at justinvincent.com covers programming, startups and web. Since 2010, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 50 times, most often “Yelp, You Cost Me $2000 by Suppressing Genuine Reviews. Here’s How You Fix It”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Justin Vincent's blog for posts on bootstrapping, microISVs and Yelp's handling of fake reviews. Commenters cite it as a source and recommend some of its posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Justin Vincent. Software engineer, 25+ years shipping production systems. Writing, resume, and links.
Most-linked posts?
- Yelp, You Cost Me $2000 by Suppressing Genuine Reviews. Here’s How You Fix It3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-04-24
- How to trump Microsoft, Google, Twitter & Facebook2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-10-10
- How to Start a Successful Bootstrapped Web App Business (12 hours of audio)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-11-18
- Anatomy of a Native Feeling HTML5 iOS App2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-11-29
- Get started with your own business2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-03-17
- Riding the startup roller-coaster: The Madness2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-04-05
What Hacker News says?
@npgatech Here ya go: - http://justinvincent.com/page/960/how-to-start-a-sucessful-b... - http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com - https://www.indiehackers.com - http://www.startupbook.net - Start Small, Stay Small - https://blog.nugget.one/upstart/ This is just a quick list to get you started I'm sure there are better lists if you google. Disclaimer: The Nugget blog and TechZing are some things that I have been invo…
Comment linking /page/960/how-to-start-a-sucessful-bootstrapped-web-app-business
on “YC’s Essential Startup Advice”Submitted Entreporn, The Fallacy That Wastes Your Life as a story · 607 points
HN discussionI am totally at odds with what PG has said here. I said - "If every developer was to focus on the very achievable goal of building a lifestyle/micro business – the entire house of cards would crumble." I stand by that. To expand, IMHO the current "chasing after the golden ticket of investment" model would crumble. But we humans are a very diverse bunch. It would be impossible for a few of us NOT to notice large scal…
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on “Entreporn, The Fallacy That Wastes Your Life”Submitted Yelp, You Cost Me $2000 by Suppressing Genuine Reviews. Here’s How You Fix It as a story · 330 points
HN discussionI did a workup of the iphone with no icons and just text: http://justinvincent.com/page/2387/if-the-iphone-used-text-l... It shows just how stark an interface can look without them.
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on “Noun Project – Icons for Everything”Submitted How I Converted My Subscription Site from Paypal to Stripe in 2 Days as a story · 186 points
HN discussionOriginal post about "The Madness" http://justinvincent.com/page/951/the-madness-the-all-consum...
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on “Walking Away from the Product I Spent a Year Building”Submitted How to Start a Successful Bootstrapped Web App Business (12 hours of audio) as a story · 108 points
HN discussionTo my way of thinking the pendulum is swinging away from funded startups to folks bootstrapping side projects. So, on the "large" end you'll have the googles, facebooks, etc and on the "micro" end you'll see a bloom of people starting small projects like those shown on indihackers. It's something I've been hoping for since 2011! http://justinvincent.com/page/1392/entreporn-the-fallacy-tha...
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on “After the end of the startup era”Submitted Anatomy of a Native Feeling HTML5 iOS App as a story · 94 points
HN discussionYup. I suggested this in 2012. http://justinvincent.com/page/1972/its-time-for-an-open-twit...
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on “Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit?”Submitted The Only Reason My App Worked Was Due to a Slow Database as a story · 81 points
HN discussionAm I the only one who actually likes CSS? I tend to find can do pretty much any design that I've been tasked with without using graphics. For example: http://justinvincent.com/page/2043/anatomy-of-a-native-feeli... But I will admit it has taken 17 years to get to that place.
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on “CSS is unnecessary given a layout language”Submitted How To Make Twitter Work For You In 5 Minutes A Day as a story · 77 points
HN discussionHere are two more great resources: http://justinvincent.com/page/1421/bootstrappers-kickstarter... http://microisv.com/ - hasn't been updated in forever, but some good content I couldn't think of it when I wrote the above comment, but "microISV" is the term you want to search for. Stands for "micro independent software vendor"
Comment linking /page/1421/bootstrappers-kickstarter-kit-no-investment-required
on “Ask HN: Examples of profitable little free web tools?”Submitted Introducing the Startup Guild: A Community for Entrepreneurs as a story · 75 points
HN discussionThis project is very close to an idea I had in 2009 I really hope it takes off: http://justinvincent.com/page/tag/venture-matrix
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on “Show HN: Save your side project”Submitted It's Time for an Open Twitter as a story · 38 points
HN discussionMight want to re-think that exact assumption: http://justinvincent.com/page/1874/yelp-you-cost-me-2000-by-... I understand that this is one anecdote, but I've seen enough similar cases of misapplied filtering to take it seriously.
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on “20% of Yelp reviews are fake”Submitted Why You Should Not Charge for Your Webapp From Day One as a story · 26 points
HN discussionFAQ on bitcoin FUD - http://justinvincent.com/page/2172/bitcoin-fear-uncertainty-... - Hope it's helpful :)
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on “Bit gold (2005)”Submitted Maximizing Revenue Through Magic Levers and Three Dimensional Pricing Plans as a story · 24 points
HN discussionYou presumably work at Yelp? This isn't a case of killing the messenger. This is a case where the company wants business owners to conform to its way to dealing with spam rather than have its engineers come up with a better solution to the problem Read this very well written article on the problem and possible solution and maybe you'll have a better idea of the problem at hand. http://justinvincent.com/page/1874/yel…
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on “Yelp accused of burying good customer reviews”Submitted Swinging For The Fences as a story · 24 points
HN discussionI wrote a blog post about clients like this a while back - http://justinvincent.com/page/302/bugs-vs-mistakes-warranted... - I've found that educating the client about QA helps in these situations.
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on “Project Manager asks for complete 100% confidence every time committing code”Submitted Internet Explorer Now Has Less Than 10% Browser Share on Pluggio as a story · 16 points
HN discussionOne that I didn't see listed are the TechZing broadcasts on bootstrapping. They are no longer producing the podcast but some of them are classics. http://justinvincent.com/page/960/how-to-start-a-sucessful-b...
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on “Entrepreneurial podcasts”Submitted Bootstrapporn – Inspiration for Unfunded Bootstrappers (Audio) as a story · 9 points
HN discussionClickable: http://justinvincent.com/page/100/how-to-trump-microsoft-goo...
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on “Ask HN: Rate my idea - The Venture Matrix”Submitted Open Letter to Twitter: Here’s How You Really Innovate the Timeline as a story · 6 points
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