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Marcus Wood
Personal blog · marcuswood.io/blogprogrammingstartupscareer
Marcus Wood's personal blog at marcuswood.io covers programming, startups and career. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Does Your Code Pass the Jeopardy Test?”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog in a thread about failure and side projects. The only comment shares a parallel experience of pausing a niche news aggregator, and does not discuss the writing.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- Does Your Code Pass the Jeopardy Test?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-29
What Hacker News says?
I’m in a similar position to you, having just started a break from a side project I tried to cram into a business. The idea is a niche news aggregator for professionals like market researchers and consultants focused on a domain. The main take-away I’ve had is “if you make a good MVP, target the right audience, with the right messaging, with a real problem, you will get a very strong response. If you don’t get a str…
Comment linking /blog/we-launched-a-product-with-150-here-s-what-happened
on “Does Failure Lead to Success? I sure hope so”Submitted My app scaled to 46,000 users two weeks after launch and made $0 as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Effective Slate Testing with React Testing Library as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Does Your Code Pass the Jeopardy Test? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Does Your Code Pass the Jeopardy Test? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion