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Natalie Downe
Personal blog · blog.natbat.netstartupsculture
Natalie Downe's personal blog at blog.natbat.net covers startups and culture. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Lanyrd: From idea to exit – the story of our startup”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for the Lanyrd startup story, written by its founders Natalie Downe and Simon Willison about building the site on their honeymoon and getting into YC.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Enthusiastic world explorer, digital creative, environmental technologist, citizen scientist & budding computational ecologist. California Naturalist. KM6LCB
Most-linked posts?
- Lanyrd: From idea to exit – the story of our startup3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-09-25
- Lanyrd: From idea to exit – the story of our startup (2013)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-10
What Hacker News says?
After we got married back in 2010 my partner Natalie and I quit our jobs with the intent to travel the world for as long as we could get away with. We ended up starting a startup together in Morocco, applied to YC from Luxor in Egypt, got accepted, moved to Mountain View and spent the next three years running a startup before getting acquired. It kind of ruined the honeymoon! Natalie wrote up the full story here: ht…
Comment linking /post/61658401806/lanyrd-from-idea-to-exit
on “Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs to travel the world, how did it go?”Submitted Lanyrd: From idea to exit – the story of our startup as a story · 324 points
HN discussionI think you're thinking of Lanyrd : http://blog.natbat.net/post/61658401806/lanyrd-from-idea-to-...
Comment linking /post/61658401806/lanyrd-from-idea-to-exit-the-story-of-our-startup
on “Redesigning mapbox.com”Submitted Lanyrd: From idea to exit – the story of our startup (2013) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe founders of lanyrd were a husband/wife pair who recently had a really interesting blog post about their startup on the hn frontpage. http://blog.natbat.net/post/61658401806/lanyrd-from-idea-to-...
Comment linking /post/61658401806/lanyrd-from-idea-to-exit-the-story-of-our-startup
on “Y Combinator: Winter 2014 Funding”Lanyrd was developed while the founders (Simon Willison and Natalie Downe) were on honeymoon, and was subsequently accepted into YC (Jan 2011) and has since been acquired by Eventbrite. The story of the site is well worth a read - http://blog.natbat.net/post/61658401806/lanyrd-from-idea-to-...
Comment linking /post/61658401806/lanyrd-from-idea-to-exit-the-story-of-our
on “Ask HN: How do investors feel about married couples?”