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Muck Rack Blog
Company blog · muckrack.com/blog · on HN as lsemelbusinesswritingstartups
Muck Rack Blog is the company blog at muckrack.com, writing about business, writing and startups. Since 2011, 38 different Hacker News readers have linked it 66 times, most often “Senior Front-End Engineer – Fully Remote”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
66mentions?
3recommend?
38HN people?
2011–2026first – last linked?
Rarely recommended · 3 of 35 sampled comments recommend it, 3 are critical?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly link Muck Rack author pages that list a writer's articles, often to judge a journalist's record or bias. Other comments point to its job listings, its PR tools and its blog posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 35 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Senior Front-End Engineer – Fully Remote2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-11-08
- /2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-07-05
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-09
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-07-07
What Hacker News says?
He has stuck by his claim -- despite the findings of numerous national and international intelligence community investigations and even a Republican senate investigations -- that Russia did not interfere in the 2016 election. And despite his founding of the Intercept in part to investigate abuses by people in power (and his constant criticism that the press never publishes negative articles about people on their sid…
Comment linking /ggreenwald/articles
on “My Resignation from the Intercept”- vv · 2015-08-11
Submitted How to turn your PR around: a to-do list as a story · 6 points
HN discussion > at least one case where protestors attempted to burn down an apartment complex On the footage, he described seeing two individuals lighting a fire in the lobby shortly after 5 a.m. Sunday. After the suspects leave, another individual is seen coming into view and quickly extinguishing the fire near the elevators, Munoz said. ... Police have not confirmed any link between their investigation into this incident and t…
Comment linking /matias-munoz
on “In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail seriously”Submitted There are now more than 6 PR pros for every journalist as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMuck Rack ( http://muckrack.com ) | NYC or remote | Elasticsearch expert | Freelance/contract We're looking for an Elasticsearch expert to help us improve queries and relevancy, deal with scaling issues, and make some immediate fixes. We have some immediate, high-priority issues as well as long-term projects. If you also know Django, that'd be great, but not a requirement. Muck Rack connects journalists with PR pros…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)”Submitted Senior Front-End Engineer – Fully Remote as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMuck Rack | Sr. Software Engineer | Remote or on-site at our SoHo, NYC office We're looking looking for a talented individual to join our fast-growing tech startup. Our mission is to make journalists, PR pros and marketers more successful. Muck Rack offers tools that help media professionals find and contact the most relevant journalists for their stories, and monitor how their stories perform. You’ll be working alo…
Comment linking /job/14/senior-software-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)”Submitted 7 reasons startups shouldn’t do their own PR as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMuck Rack is looking for talented SREs to join our fast-growing New York (but remote-friendly) SaaS startup. Our mission is to make journalists, PR pros and marketers more successful. Muck Rack offers tools that help media professionals find and contact the most relevant journalists for their stories, and monitor how their stories perform. Muck Rack offers a very flexible remote working policy. We strongly believe i…
Comment linking /careers/openings?gh_jid=4733604002
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)”Submitted Fully Remote – Platform Engineer – Muck Rack as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMuck Rack | New York or Remote | https://muckrack.com Muck Rack is looking for a talented individual to join our fast-growing tech startup in New York. Our mission is to make journalists, PR pros and marketers more successful. Muck Rack offers tools that help media professionals find and contact the most relevant journalists for their stories, and monitor how their stories perform. You’ll be working alongside the CT…
Comment linking /job/14/senior-software-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)”Submitted The Year of the 'Flash News Cycle' as a story · 1 points
HN discussionLead Software Engineer Muck Rack ( http://muckrack.com ) is looking for a talented individual to join our fast-growing tech startup in New York. Our mission is to make journalists, PR pros and marketers more successful. Muck Rack offers tools that help media professionals find and contact the most relevant journalists for their stories, and monitor how their stories perform. ABOUT THE POSITION You’ll be working alon…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)”Submitted Muck Rack as a story · 1 points
HN discussion1 point by lsemel 29 days ago | parent | favorite | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019) Muck Rack | New York or Remote | https://muckrack.com Muck Rack is looking for talented people to join our fast-growing tech startup in New York. Our mission is to make journalists, PR pros and marketers more successful. Muck Rack offers tools that help media professionals find and contact the most relevant journalists for th…
Comment linking /job/38/product-designer-uiux
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019)”Muck Rack | New York or Remote | https://muckrack.com Muck Rack is looking for a talented individual to join our fast-growing tech startup in New York. Our mission is to make journalists, PR pros and marketers more successful. Muck Rack offers tools that help media professionals find and contact the most relevant journalists for their stories, and monitor how their stories perform. You’ll be working alongside the CT…
Comment linking /job/14/senior-software-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)”Muck Rack is looking for talented SREs to join our fast-growing New York (but remote-friendly) SaaS startup. Our mission is to make journalists, PR pros and marketers more successful. Muck Rack offers tools that help media professionals find and contact the most relevant journalists for their stories, and monitor how their stories perform. Muck Rack offers a very flexible remote working policy. We strongly believe i…
Comment linking /careers/openings?gh_jid=4733604002
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2020)”Muck Rack ( https://muckrack.com ) is looking for talented developers to join our fast-growing tech startup. You’ll be working alongside the CTO and engineering team, and with product managers and designers, to execute major technical projects on Muck Rack, lead the building of new features, and help shape our engineering culture and processes. Our tech stack includes Python, Django, Celery, SASS, Redis, Elasticsear…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)”Muck Rack ( https://muckrack.com/ ) | Remote | Full-Time | Senior Django Developer Muck Rack is the leading SaaS platform for public relations and communications professionals. As a Senior Django Developer you’ll work alongside the CTO, fellow software engineers, product managers, and designers, to execute major technical projects on Muck Rack, lead the building of new features, and help shape our engineering cultur…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)”Muck Rack | New York or Remote | https://muckrack.com Muck Rack is looking for talented people to join our fast-growing tech startup in New York. Our mission is to make journalists, PR pros and marketers more successful. Muck Rack offers tools that help media professionals find and contact the most relevant journalists for their stories, and monitor how their stories perform. Muck Rack offers a very flexible remote…
Comment linking /job/38/product-designer-uiux
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019)”Muck Rack ( https://muckrack.com ) | New York, NY Muck Rack is a fast-growing SaaS platform for PR teams to effectively find the right journalists for their stories, send customized pitches, collaborate as a team, quantify their impact, and more. We index millions of articles from news outlets around the world. Fortune 500 brands, agencies and startups rely on Muck Rack to manage relationships with the media and boo…
Comment linking /job/36/vp-of-engineering
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2019)”I really like the T. Herman Zweibel signature at the bottom. He was by far my favorite recurring character. Not the Onion, but a list of H. T. Zweibel articles: https://muckrack.com/t-herman-zweibel/articles
Comment linking /t-herman-zweibel/articles
on “Jeff Lawson buys The Onion”Muck Rack | Senior Machine Learning Engineer | Remote | Full-time | https://muckrack.com Muck Rack is the leading SaaS platform for public relations and communications professionals. Our mission is to enable organizations to build trust, tell their stories, and demonstrate the unique value of earned media. Muck Rack’s AI-powered, comprehensive, and integrated platform streamlines the PR workflow to help businesses g…
Comment linking /careers/openings?gh_jid=7464244002
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)”Muck Rack | REMOTE (USA & Canada) | Senior Frontend, Backend, Platform Engineers Muck Rack ( https://muckrack.com ), a fully-remote, self-funded SaaS company building tools for public relations and communication professionals, is hiring Senior Software Engineers. You’ll work with fellow software engineers, data scientists, product managers, and designers to execute major technical projects on Muck Rack, lead the bui…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2022)”Muck Rack | REMOTE (USA & Canada) | Senior Frontend, Backend, Platform Engineers Muck Rack ( https://muckrack.com ), a fully-remote, self-funded SaaS company building tools for public relations and communication professionals, is hiring Senior Software Engineers. You’ll work with fellow software engineers, data scientists, product managers, and designers to execute major technical projects on Muck Rack, lead the bui…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2022)”Muck Rack | REMOTE (USA & Canada) | Senior Frontend, Backend, Platform Engineers Muck Rack ( https://muckrack.com ), a fully-remote, self-funded SaaS company building tools for public relations and communication professionals, is hiring Senior Software Engineers. You’ll work with fellow software engineers, data scientists, product managers, and designers to execute major technical projects on Muck Rack, lead the bui…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022)”The article is pretty fucking trash, tbh. The '''journalist''' is, too: Author: https://muckrack.com/tom-gerken/articles
Comment linking /tom-gerken/articles
on “AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years”I recently listened to a Ben Horowitz interview ( https://muckrack.com/podcast/a16z-podcast-podcast/episodes/9... ) and it's hard not to see these people as cowards. They parrot QAnon conspiracy theories and known Russian propaganda originated on RT, call consumer protections fascism (!!!), and allude to actual ideas from fascism as being "interesting." Just listen to that interview to see how morally corrupt they'v…
Comment linking /podcast/a16z-podcast-podcast/episodes/9512026-ben-horowitz-what-founders-must-know-about/
on “Tech oligarchs have turned against the system that made them”These publications are only relevant if you're building a tech business - eg one that sells to tech businesses or consumers. If you're doing anything else then these are worse than useless because they'll distract you from things that will help your company grow. Find the media that your potential customers read and target those publications and the journalists that write for them. Build relationships with them. Res…
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on “Submit.co – Where to get press coverage for your startup”The original (author's) title of the article was "Why It’s So Hard for Entrepreneurs to Get Really Rich in Europe" [0]. [0] https://muckrack.com/ed-robinson/articles
Comment linking /ed-robinson/articles
on “Why It’s Hard for Startups to Create Wealth in Europe”
