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Mark Essien
Personal blog · markessien.comstartupsai
Mark Essien's personal blog at markessien.com covers startups and ai. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Two years in the trenches building Hotels.ng (Part 1)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked only as a project page for hotels-ng. The one comment praises the author as an entrepreneur and does not judge any writing on the site.
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.
Personal Blog of Mark Essien
Most-linked posts?
- Two years in the trenches building Hotels.ng (Part 1)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-26
What Hacker News says?
More background. OP is an impressive entrepreneur! Massive kudos. https://markessien.com/projects/hotels-ng/
Comment linking /projects/hotels-ng/
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HN discussionSubmitted Two years in the trenches building Hotels.ng as a story · 1 points
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