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Michel Martens
Personal blog · soveran.comprogrammingwriting
Michel Martens writes soveran, a personal blog at soveran.com about programming and writing. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Human Error in Software”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One HN commenter cited this blog's 2014 post on how the openredis Redis hosting service got its early customers through word of mouth, in a thread on growing a product without ads.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Human Error in Software2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-12-01
- On software popularity2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-09
What Hacker News says?
We started openredis in 2011, and we reached the 1k customers mark a year later. It's a Redis hosting service for EC2, also available as a Heroku add-on. Aside from the fact that the Heroku add-ons program could be considered some sort of marketing, we've never paid a single ad. For us, the key to getting customers was word of mouth. In 2014, at the three year anniversary, I wrote a blog post about how we got starte…
Comment linking /turning-three.html
on “Ask HN: Reached 1k+ paying or registered users without spending on ads?”Submitted On software popularity as a story · 140 points
HN discussionSubmitted Human Error in Software as a story · 86 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stal is a small library for abstracting multi-step set operations in Redis as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Human Error as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Popularity as a story · 1 points
HN discussion