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Lenny Rachitsky

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Lenny Rachitsky's personal blog at lennyrachitsky.com covers startups and business. Since 2019, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1k users”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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24mentions?
22HN people?
2019–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 19 in 2020

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Lenny Rachitsky's blog and podcast on product management and growth, including a piece comparing product manager, product marketing manager and product owner roles.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Author, podcast host, angel investor, and terminally online person

Most-linked posts?

  1. How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1k users
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-05-12
  2. What is good retention – Issue 29 – Lenny's Newsletter
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-06-09
  3. How to Kickstart and Scale a Marketplace
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-11-20
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    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-14

What Hacker News says?

  1. Don't want to be mean but this is honestly a very simple article. This can be easily summarized as : - A product manager's job is to decide how to build the product - a PMM is to market it - a PO is just a role inside a scrum team I don't really agree with that, things are much more complex in reality, the PM and the PMM jobs is very different depending on the company you are working at. If you want good content on…

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    on “Product Manager vs. Product Marketing Manager vs. Product Owner”
  2. Submitted How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1k users as a story · 623 points

    HN discussion
  3. argiacomi · 2025-01-14Recommends
    Great book. A couple of others I’ve also found super helpful: - The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter ( https://a.co/d/dRDXQtg ) - Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love ( https://a.co/d/aw73ped ) I’ve also found some good stuff in Lenny Rachitsky’s Podcast/Blog ( https://www.lennyrachitsky.com )

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    on “Ask HN: How to approach first days on a new job as a senior PM?”
  4. Submitted How to Kickstart and Scale a Marketplace as a story · 301 points

    HN discussion
  5. Join us for a Product Jam Session between Lenny Ratchisky and Matt Mazzeo. Lenny was an early Growth PM at Airbnb after his company Local Mind was acquired and is now an angel investor/writer on product & growth at https://www.lennyrachitsky.com/ . Lenny offers a unique perspective on product having founded his own company and helped guide Airbnb's product direction from early on. Matt began his career at CAA buildi…

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    on “Join Us for a Product Jam with Matt Mazzeo and Lenny Rachitsky”
  6. Submitted My favorite product management templates as a story · 34 points

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  7. Submitted A comprehensive survey of Product Management as a story · 3 points

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  8. Submitted How to layer sales onto a bottom-up self-serve product as a story · 3 points

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  9. Submitted How to price your SaaS product as a story · 3 points

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  10. Submitted The most important bottom-up SaaS metrics to track as a story · 3 points

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  11. Submitted What it feels like when you've found product-market fit as a story · 3 points

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  12. Submitted Today's B2B startups turned their users into paying customers as a story · 3 points

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  13. Submitted How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1k users as a story · 3 points

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  14. Submitted How the biggest consumer apps found their first 1,000 users as a story · 3 points

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  15. Submitted What Is Good Retention as a story · 2 points

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  16. Submitted A practical fundraising playbook from this prolific angel investor as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted What is good retention – Issue 29 – Lenny's Newsletter as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted How to Kickstart and Scale a Marketplace Business as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted What do you consider GOOD and GREAT retention? as a story · 1 points

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  20. Submitted How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1k users as a story · 1 points

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  21. Submitted How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1k users as a story · 1 points

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  22. Submitted Leading your company through a pandemic (Tips) as a story · 1 points

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  23. Submitted Balancing outcome-thinking with design and technical requirements as a story · 1 points

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  24. Submitted Phase 2 of Scaling a Marketplace: Maintaining Quality as a story · 1 points

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