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My blog is a personal blog at blog.luap.info about business, startups and career. Since 2020, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 57 times, most often “How to make sure to fail your startup (2020)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link the DIY lay-down desk build as a desk-idea reference and the how-I-track-my-life post as a worked answer to planning questions. Only one comment judges the writing directly.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- How to make sure to fail your startup (2020)3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-06-01
- Travelling with 24” Monitors2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-02-21
- Notion is not a knowledge base2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-03-15
- /how-i-track-my-life.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-05
- I built a lay-down desk2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-05
What Hacker News says?
Mine is https://blog.luap.info/ My goal is to talk about original topics in which it is difficult to find information whatever the topic: startups, dating, nutrition , diy, travelling as a dev
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on “Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?”Submitted I built a lay-down desk as a story · 560 points
HN discussionWhoaa, amazing, I've been doing the same during the last 5 years, but I use an easier setup, I use an app, so I just have to click on buttons at the end of each activity. > Stay tuned to learn how do different activities influence my mood I only started doing that this year, and I'm pissed off I didn't start doing it earlier, as that's where you can start doing correlation on your life and your activities. If some p…
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on “I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year”Submitted What really happens inside a dating app as a story · 425 points
HN discussionIn enterprise sales, the price is not the main decision maker, you will usually only disclose the price at the end of the sales cycle. Not showing the price on the website is one way to push people to contact you. You don't want people to decide on their own if they should buy your product, you have a big sales team to help them do that. I've wrote about it here, if you are interested : https://blog.luap.info/why-mo…
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on “How to sell a B2B product”Submitted Travelling with 24” Monitors as a story · 361 points
HN discussionI bet this guy started his career in a small companies and is now working with big companies. Why it is important? 1. The bigger the company, means also the older the company means also a lot of design and tech debt and results in bad UX 2. The smaller the company the more you work on your UX to attract customers, the bigger the more you care about your profitability 3. The bigger the companies the more your custome…
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on “Losing faith in UX”Submitted We deserve better than Confluence and Notion as a story · 165 points
HN discussionThere is only one way to get things done [1]. It is just DO and stop thinking about it or how to do it. Todo apps will not help you get things done, they will only help you accumulate much more tasks that you can do. I mean how can some people think that software will make them do more ? The app will not do the task for you. Contrary to what the title states, some people get things done. But productivity is the same…
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on “We Still Don’t Get Things Done”Submitted Planning for My Kidnapping as a story · 112 points
HN discussion> It will be fascinating to see what happens as these two companies expand to compete with each other Very unlikely, as both markets (smb payments and enterprise payments) is unlimited, there is a few chance they will try to compete with each other. On the other hand almost no company is able to be a leader in both the smb and enterprise space, because as you mentioned it, the cultures need to be different, the cust…
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on “Building a Developer Cult”Submitted Cancel culture, Twitter trendings and radical transparency as a story · 31 points
HN discussionOnce again this post follows the usual strategy to make sure to fail your startup https://blog.luap.info/how-to-make-sure-to-fail-your-startup... These people are very motivated, are able to start new projects and working hard on it. Unfortunately contrary to what the world wants to make you think. Succeeding is not only a question of working hard, there is a lot of luck involved and also a lot of knowledge. But it…
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on “My experience releasing failed SaaS products”Submitted France, UE, Covid, democracry and the research of complete stupidity as a story · 8 points
HN discussionThe beginning of the article is pretty on point. Most PM dream about working in a pure product-led company and spend their time complaining that it is not how things should be done. Which is a big misunderstanding of the PM job, I've written before how to navigate the PM in role in Saas enterprise (very likely sales driven) [1] Actually if you search the web for PM resources you will mostly find insights on how to r…
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on “Product-focused and sales-focused companies”Submitted Wrap a website with a WebExtension as a story · 7 points
HN discussionReminds me of the "DIY lay-down desk" https://blog.luap.info/drafts/i-built-a-lay-down-desk.html
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on “Aurora 7 Prototype – 7 Screen Laptop”Submitted Who is going to teach the junior developers? as a story · 6 points
HN discussion> the key thing a product manager has to do is get out of the building. Well, no, that's the sales job. First being a product manager is different in every company. And second there is a lot of differences depending of the type of business you are working in. For example if you work in Saas b2b enterprise you can easily be a very good product manager and almost never meet the customers nor the users [1], because tha…
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on “Product Manager vs. Product Marketing Manager vs. Product Owner”Submitted Save Money and Uninstall Tinder as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThis is different, both Stripe and AWS users are developers. I don't know how you can be so sure that Stripe will win, Adyen is already on the enterprise space, and they are a bigger company than Stripe. > Continuing self-service while expanding "up market" into the enterprise. Things are more complex than a sentence, the whole company needs to operate differently https://blog.luap.info/why-most-saas-companies-cant-…
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on “Optimizely to be acquired by Episerver”Submitted I built a lay-down desk as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe very first link in the postedarticle describes how authorsolved all your points. https://blog.luap.info/how-i-track-my-life.html
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on “Planning for My Kidnapping”Submitted How to get your first SaaS Enterprise level customer as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis was posted a couple years ago. Make sure to check out the first pic: https://blog.luap.info/drafts/i-built-a-lay-down-desk.html?h... And discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24687458
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on “Ask HN: What cool desk ideas do you have for a home office?”Submitted How I track my life as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Travelling with 24“ Monitors as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What happens inside a dating app as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Travelling with 24“ Monitors as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notion is not a knowledge base as a story · 3 points
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