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Margin Hound
Personal blog · marginhound.comdataprogrammingeconomics
Margin Hound is a personal blog at marginhound.com about data, programming and economics. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “Show HN: Real Earnings Data From 100 Recent Website Sales”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Margin Hound for its posts on pricing and website investments, Python and analytics, and web calculators, plus commentary on Google, mobile search and display advertising.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Real Earnings Data From 100 Recent Website Sales2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-08-22
What Hacker News says?
Web publisher here...the real problem is twofold: - Display advertising makes the web suck; while display ads fund a large share of general market content sites, from a purely technical perspective they kill site performance. - All major market participants suck equally, rendering no alternatives for end-users or advertisers to defect to; this inherently limits any incentive for real change. AMP / Mobile index (new…
Comment linking /revenue-model-study-for-small-websites/
on “Google May Be Stealing Mobile Traffic”Submitted Show HN: Ad Revenue Prediction Tool for Side Projects as a story · 58 points
HN discussionJust rebuilt one of my projects: an automated website revenue strategy consultant. http://www.marginhound.com/calculators/website-revenue-calcu... The tool is built off a set of revenue benchmarks I built up over the past couple of years; this version looks at the expected performance for different market niches and revenue strategies (for ad-supported sites). It guides the audience towards the best options to impro…
Comment linking /calculators/website-revenue-calculator
on “Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL”Submitted DevOps Eye for the Analytics Guy as a story · 6 points
HN discussionInteresting - Google's control over organic search might actually come under threat sooner.... http://www.marginhound.com/siri-will-virtual-assistants-disr... Granted, Apple's recent market share numbers for mobile devices were down (and they are strong in US markets than globally; Android is doing better overseas). But they've got a legitimate shot at disruption as voice search grows.
Comment linking /siri-will-virtual-assistants-disrupt-googles-control-of-organic-search/
on “The Curse of Culture”Submitted Why Every Analyst Should Learn To Code as a story · 5 points
HN discussionFor those who practice SEO, there is a bit of irony here. I suspect a couple of do-follow links from The Atlantic placed within the text of the article would be relatively valuable from an SEO perspective... The market value of "acquiring" those links from a highly reputable site is likely far in excess of $100 / article; SEO considerations have disrupted value creation in the lower end of the content market. An art…
Comment linking /revenue-model-study-for-small-websites/
on “A Day in the Life of a Freelance Journalist”Submitted Escaping The Walled Garden of Enterprise Analytics Using R and Python as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://marginhound.com/ Python & Analytics, with a heavy skew towards pricing and website investments. Also has a bunch of web calculators and some past research projects. Pricing content goes on hold when my day job is focused on that. Too much professional backlash...
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Early Warning of Zynga's Decline From Google Searches For Cheat Sites as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Website Revenue Calculator (Enter Assumptions, Get Revenue Target) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Content Marketing Ninjas – Why 4chan Secretly Rules The World as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Real Earnings Data From 100 Recent Website Sales as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rethinking Blog Spam: Why Does It Really Annoy Us? Some Disturbing Implications as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Value a Website with No Revenue as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Laziness and Procrastination as a Strategy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Evolution of the Market for Small Websites: 2012 to 2019 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Optimizing for LinkedIn Search: Picking the Right Skills as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bitcoin Mania: A capitalist human wave attack on the economics of trust as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Your Software Marketing Sucks: “All You People Sound Alike To Me” as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Waiting For Zebra: Why I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love The Google Updates as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Business of Fraud: What I Learned Tracking A Credit Card Fraud Ring as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using bottle.py and SL4A to build an Android Web Server for your phone / tablet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Build Your First Python-Powered Website Using bottle.py as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Real Revenue and Profit Statistics For Small Websites as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google SEO Features I Would Pay For - Site Owner Controls Keyword Landing Page as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Becoming Addicted to Real Time Analytics and the risks of making snap decisions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Happens When Everyone Codes: A Tale of Two Product Teams as a story · 1 points
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