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Micro
Company blog · micro.mu/blog · on HN as asimprogrammingsystems
Micro is the company blog at micro.mu, writing about programming and systems. Since 2016, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 66 times, most often “Show HN: Micro – apps without ads, algorithms or tracking”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (16) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as the homepage of Micro, an open source microservices framework and hosted platform. Comments are mostly hiring posts, Show HN follow-ups and product mentions, not comments on the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 16 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Micro – apps without ads, algorithms or tracking3 people · 23 mentions · first linked 2016-06-24
- Micro – A microservice ecosystem3 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2016-07-28
What Hacker News says?
Interesting to see this. We've taken a similar view for the initial phase of the micro network. Locality is going to matter more and more as we move into the future. Although Cloud still has its place and we don't ignore that either. https://github.com/micro/micro https://micro.mu/docs/network.html
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on “Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud”Submitted Micro 3.0 is a platform for cloud native development as a story · 95 points
HN discussionUnfortunately google is now a massive juggernaut that has 20+ layers before you can ship anything, and thats bled out to the users of their services. I wish we had better alternatives. In fact, I now just focus on shipping a PWA. Btw thanks to the author. I got Conversations to work with Micro ( https://micro.mu ), the personal assistant I'm building. Its a nice XMPP client. Now just need to figure out how to do enc…
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on “Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free”Submitted Micro – the microservice toolkit 1.0.0 release and beyond as a story · 23 points
HN discussionMicro | London, UK | Onsite | Full time | https://micro.mu Micro is the simplest way to build microservices. We're a small team based in London focused on providing a vastly superior experience for developers to build microservices without having to worry about the complexity of distributed systems or cloud-native infrastructure. Micro started as open source project 4 years ago and is now turning that into a service…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2019)”Submitted Reflections on Big Tech as a story · 22 points
HN discussionMicro | SWE, SRE, Dev UX | Full-Time | ONSITE London and REMOTE Micro ( https://micro.mu ) is a seed funded startup building a global services platform for microservices development. We are the creators of the successful open source project Go Micro https://github.com/micro/go-micro . Our goal is to now move beyond the framework and provide developers with a serverless platform to remove the hassle of managing infra…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2020)”Submitted Micro Server as a story · 7 points
HN discussionMicro | SWE, SRE, Dev XP | London, UK | Full-Time | https://micro.mu Hi, we're Micro, a seed funded early stage startup building an open global services network to empower developers to build, share and collaborate on microservices without having to manage any infrastructure. We're realising the potential of the cloud and beyond. Micro started as an open source project 4 years ago and has evolved into a platform. We…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2019)”Submitted Show HN: Micro 3.0 (M3O) – a platform for cloud native development as a story · 6 points
HN discussion535 days ago I posted "Show HN: Go-micro" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8895794 . Go-Micro turned into Micro - a microservice ecosystem https://micro.mu . It's primarily open source software for microservices geared at simplifying the process of building distributed systems. I'm working on it full time, have a sponsor and will be speaking at the Golang UK conference next month. Still a long road ahead but thi…
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on “Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?”Submitted Show HN: Micro – apps without ads, algorithms or tracking as a story · 4 points
HN discussionMicro - a personal AI agent - https://micro.mu Still iterating. Started with something else, then turned that into tools, then turns that into agents, then turned that into an assistant. Now trying to make it generally useful, quite painful at times... but want something that is not Muse or ChatGPT or Claude or Gemini... and not Hermes or OpenClaw. Currently just fixing all the broken styling/css, etc, no separate f…
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on “Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)”Submitted So What Now? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionMicro - simplifying distributed systems development Started in late 2014 with an idea and a very fuzzy prototype. Today the open source development is sponsored by an enterprise company and it's no longer just a project but my full time focus. https://micro.mu
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on “Ask HN: What are you working on?”Submitted Announcing: M3O – A Micro services development platform as a story · 4 points
HN discussionContinued my solo journey on Micro - OSS tools to simplify distributed systems development. It's been over 2 years full time now. https://micro.mu/ https://github.com/micro
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on “Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?”Submitted Micro – A microservice ecosystem as a story · 4 points
HN discussionX replacement that's isn't Threads, Bluesky or Mastodon? https://micro.mu/blog/2025/10/13/more-on-mu.html
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on “Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)”Submitted Go Micro became something bigger as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMicro | Platform Engineer | REMOTE UK or within 3 hours of timezone We're building a cloud platform for API driven services development. There's a huge missing piece in the JAMstack right now, think: "Netlify for the frontend, Micro for the backend". We need someone who wants to build that using current cloud infrastructure and open source technology. We're mainly a Go shop looking for people with generalist skills…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2020)”Submitted The Future of Attention as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMicro | London, UK | Onsite | https://micro.mu Micro is a seed funded company in London building the future of microservices development. I spent the past 4 years bootstrapping the most popular Go microservices framework and now we're levelling up to build a platform for developers to massively reduce the complexity of cloud native systems. To learn more email hello@micro.mu
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2019)”Submitted Micro 3.0 Released as a story · 3 points
HN discussionProject evolved from a small framework with a couple hundred stars to something now used by a number of billion dollar enterprise companies. Still a long road ahead. https://micro.mu/
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on “Ask HN: HNers who got their “Show HNs” on homepage, how is your site doing now?”Submitted Show HN: Micro v2.0.0 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWorking on something that will probably end up covering a lot of those requirements in the long run. https://micro.mu
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on “A better Kubernetes from the ground up”Submitted Show HN: Talk to Micro from Conversations: an assistant in your chat app as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWe're broadly working towards a lot of what you're saying here at https://micro.mu . It's an incremental process which I fundamentally believe needs to begin with giving developers a new method of development guided by a framework. We're leaning more towards the android model of managing a complex runtime and providing the framework for developing in that environment. We'll probably leverage cloud, edge, personal se…
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on “Sandstorm Oasis Is Shutting Down”Submitted Show HN: Reintroducing Micro: A Personal Assistant for Everyone as a story · 2 points
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