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Kevin Coleman
Personal blog · kcoleman.me · on HN as itakewritingprogrammingcareer
Kevin Coleman's personal blog at kcoleman.me covers writing, programming and career. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “The Passkey Is Worse”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link Kevin Coleman's blog for his case study on starting a SaaS, built on a small SMS app idea, and a 2014 post on his path to success. The comments do not judge the writing.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- The Passkey Is Worse2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-22
What Hacker News says?
I wrote a quick blog post about my experience and included the photos that I took. I was traveling alone and I knew the area was not safe, so I really didn't take enough photos, but the best one is at the end. https://www.kcoleman.me/2026/09/08/Cambodia-Scam-Centers.htm...
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on “I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea”Submitted Show HN: Get Fat Slowly as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI work from the USA with people only in Singapore and India. I wrote "Writing style for Slack" a couple years ago if you're interested: https://www.kcoleman.me/writing/slack/2023/03/11/writing-sty...
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on “Ask HN: How do you communicate in a remote startup?”Submitted The Passkey Is Worse as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK - Atlanta or Remote I'm a full stack web developer based in Atlanta, GA Skills: AngularJS, Ruby on Rails, C#, ASP.net, Android, D3.js, jQuery, pure Javascript, PostgreSQL, Nginx Experience: RESTful APIs, Widgets, web applications, and Android apps. I'm always open to learning anything that gets the job done. Blog: http://kcoleman.me Github: https://github.com/KevinColemanInc Email: kevin.coleman@gatech.…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2014)”Submitted Show HN: A Self-Hosted LinkedIn Profile as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHere is Kevin's story: https://www.kcoleman.me/2017-05-2-case-study-start-a-saas.ht... "For Anonymous BTC SMS, I found my inspiration from a uk based sms provider on Indie Hackers. I chose this idea, because I have made several SMS based apps and I knew I could test this idea out pretty quickly. The owner of that app also does a poor job of SEO and marketing online so I knew I could get in front of the right people."
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on “Someone cloned my website and is using it to scam people”Submitted At-Will Employment as a story · 3 points
HN discussion* SEEKING WORK Location: Remote or San Francisco Full-stack Ruby on Rails / NodeJs developer. Specialize in API design and Single Page Applications. Previous clients include: CareerBuider.com, PayPal.com, and Uber.com Say hello at: kevin.coleman@sparkstart.io blog: https://kcoleman.me keyword stuffing: ReactJs, angularjs, android, java, frontend, backend, postgres, mysql, heroku, aws, devops
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2016)”Submitted The Passkey Was the Scariest Part as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSeeking Work: Remote (based in Atlanta, GA) - http://www.kcoleman.me Full stack RoR web developer looking for interesting projects. 1) 200k tickets sold on a platform I designed 2) ~$20k/mo income from spree e-commerce platform I maintained 3) RESTful resume parsing service at CareerBuilder.com My 'stack': Rails C#.net / ASP.net / MVC HTML/SLIM CSS/LESS/Sass JavaScript Angular.js D3.js Node.js (Express.js, Sails.js)…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2014)”Submitted Designing With AI on a budget as an engineer: Google+ChatGPT as a story · 2 points
HN discussionspeaking is faster than typing. My current process is: 1. Use Google Eloquent or directly into ChatGPT to dictate the email. 2. Then ask AI to polish, simplify, summarize, and I provide my writing style [0]. That gets sent to the user. I am very careful to not allow the AI to write too much. The alternative is I spend 20+ minutes writing and re-writing the email. [0] - https://www.kcoleman.me/writing/slack/2023/03/1…
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on “Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left”Submitted Writing Style for Slack (2023) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTbh, I never have been a good writer. A college professor once told me I am a terrible writer. I've tried to get better (I read a lot, I write a lot, I've taken multiple college level writing course). I even started a blog ( https://kcoleman.me ). I kinda view myself as a wheelchair user. I'm bad at walking so I use at wheelchair so I can at least have a semblance of decent communication. I don't think my ideas are…
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on “DeepSeek Introduces Vision”Submitted I Graduated from a Code School. Now What? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI wish you could choose the language. I ended up building my own tool to practice typing in Vietnamese: https://www.kcoleman.me/vietnamese-typing/
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on “typ.ing”Submitted Logistics of Restraint as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHe has a blog that sheds some light on your question. https://www.kcoleman.me/2014/06/04/path-to-success.html
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on “Free Public WiFi”Submitted Tokenmining: Low token plans maximize your output as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://kcoleman.me
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Coleman Laws as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Graduated from a Code School. Now What? as a story · 1 points
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