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Max Lynch

Personal blog · maxlynch.com/blog · on HN as yesimahumanstartupsbusinesscareer

Max Lynch's personal blog at maxlynch.com covers startups, business and career. Since 2012, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Leaving your job: it's less risky than staying”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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24mentions?
8HN people?
2012–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 13 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked only as a bare link with a short aside. The linked post argues that a website design trend needs to die. No comment judges the writing itself.

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.

The author on HN?

yesimahuman · 6,190 karma · member since 2008

Past life: Co-founded and sold the startup behind Ionic Framework. Creator of Capacitor.js https://bsky.app/profile/maxlynch.com

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Leaving your job: it's less risky than staying
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-07-31
  2. Don't Do Business Plan Contests
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-01-22

What Hacker News says?

  1. Interesting aside? http://maxlynch.com/a-website-design-trend-that-needs-to-die

    Comment linking /a-website-design-trend-that-needs-to-die

    on “From YC Rejection to 10,000 Users in 1 Month (with stats)”
  2. Submitted Creating a Great Place to Work as a story · 55 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Why I'm an Entrepreneur as a story · 26 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted On Not Bootstraping as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Leaving your job: it's less risky than staying as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Are you Driven by Belief? as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Why You Should Charge More as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Startup Fallacies as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Don't Do Business Plan Contests as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Building a Web Product - Start to Finish as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Leaving your Job as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Don't Do Business Plan Contests as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Other People's Failures as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Lifestyle Businesses as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Madison's Future as a Startup Hub as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted The Failure Fallacy as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Patience and Startups: Avoiding the "spinning pivot of death" as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted You Make It You Sell It as a story · 2 points

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  19. Submitted David vs Goliath - The Power of Passion (or how X-Plane Beat FSX) as a story · 1 points

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  20. Submitted Milestones as a story · 1 points

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  21. Submitted Leaving your Job as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted The Definition of Success as an Entrepreneur as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted The Meaning of "Simple" as a story · 1 points

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  24. Submitted Do it now: My Advice to Aspiring College Entrepreneurs as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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