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kenwestgaard.com is a personal blog at kenwestgaard.com about business and career. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Every freelancer starts out undervaluing their work”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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7mentions?
5HN people?
2015–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Only a bare link appears, in a thread about why freelancers are underpaid. From the URL slug, the linked post seems to cover five questions to ask when setting a freelance rate.

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?

  1. Every freelancer starts out undervaluing their work
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-01-01
  2. Every freelancer starts out undervaluing their work
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-05-08

What Hacker News says?

  1. http://kenwestgaard.com/the-gurus-got-5-questions-set-rate

    Comment linking /the-gurus-got-5-questions-set-rate

    on “Ask HN: Why are freelancers underpaid?”
  2. Submitted Every freelancer starts out undervaluing their work as a story · 167 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Every freelancer starts out undervaluing their work as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted 12 Gurus Got 5 Questions About How They Set Their Rate as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted How to Write the Perfect Email for Your Subscribers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Why Your Low Price Is Killing Your Business as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted An honest freelancers review of last years uphill battle as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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