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Matt Brown
Personal blog · notes.mtb.xyzbusinessstartupseconomics
Matt Brown's personal blog at notes.mtb.xyz covers business, startups and economics. Since 2023, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Your data model is your destiny”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked post "Your data model is your destiny" is about data models in software, and the thread discusses whether LLMs can generate a whole program from them. Only one comment, with no judgement of 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.
Notes on fintech, vertical software, and VC.
Most-linked posts?
- Your data model is your destiny2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-14
- Vertical, Horizontal and Ghost Markets2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-07
What Hacker News says?
Easy can still be time consuming. I think trying to get an LLM to spit out the whole program is a flawed approach, but I understand why you'd want to be able to spitball 12 different data models quickly. https://notes.mtb.xyz/p/your-data-model-is-your-destiny
Comment linking /p/your-data-model-is-your-destiny
on “Code has _always_ been the easy part”Submitted Your data model is your destiny as a story · 403 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dark Software as a story · 49 points
HN discussionSubmitted The new fintech stack is open source? as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dangerous Language in Startups as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why VC and software have PE envy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stablecoins in 1k Words as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cross-border payments in ~1k words as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Invisible Asymptotes in Vertical Software as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Payfac in 1k Words as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fintech First Principles as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vertical, Horizontal and Ghost Markets as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vertical, Horizontal, and Ghost Markets as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted B2B payments aren't payments, they're workflows as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting in Fintechs as a story · 1 points
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