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NevBlog
Personal blog · nevblog.comstartupsbusinessproductivity
NevBlog is a personal blog at nevblog.com about startups, business and productivity. Since 2008, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Homeless Experiment”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link NevBlog for posts on the homeless experiment, the Seinfeld calendar motivation technique, Mac shortcuts, and startup ideas. Most comments cite the posts as references rather than judge them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Tracking the road to financial success from age 22 to 29 (now). My name is Neville, and I'm an entrepreneur and copywriter. This is my financial blog.
Most-linked posts?
- Homeless Experiment3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-02-03
- How to optimize your E-Commerce website 2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-04-28
What Hacker News says?
Here’s a problem: Many Americans can’t afford medical care. Er, not sure where the author has been since the November 2008 election, but President Barack Obama made tackling this decades long problem a signature issue of his presidency, and actually got the problem addressed comprehensively. Sure, there is still work to do, but health care which makes up 1/3 of the economy was never going to be solved by programmers…
Comment linking /homeless-experiment/
on “Bread and Circuses: The State of Web App Startups”Submitted How To Crash A Party as a story · 180 points
HN discussionThis is the guy: http://www.nevblog.com/images/prime-minister-of-malaysia.jpg
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on “How To Crash A Party”Submitted Homeless Experiment as a story · 104 points
HN discussionFor those that haven't been around long enough to remember this being posted here is an article by a guy who experimented with being homeless for a few days... http://www.nevblog.com/category/homeless-experiment/
Comment linking /category/homeless-experiment/
on “An Unremarkable Event in the Tenderloin”Submitted Illegal Business Idea of the Day as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThanks for naming the idea. For those wondering what the Seinfeld technique is but who are too lazy to Google at the moment: http://www.nevblog.com/motivations-the-seinfeld-calendar/ .
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on “Tell HN: just made my first dollar on the Internet from my freemium web app”Submitted Where Growth Is Found: The Magical Sugar Packet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis guy has some cool blog entries along those lines: http://www.nevblog.com/labels/Homeless%20Experiment.html
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on “Could you Survive Without Money? Meet the Guy Who Does.”Submitted Bottled water experiment as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNo, I agree. I had signed up to get the Mixpanel lifetime account. The next few months had stuff that didn't interest me, but were helpful enough that I would occasionally send them off to friends. Then it became online courses and get-rich-quick-but-not-so-quick-that-its-scammy types of things. I unsubscribed a little while ago. One of the guys that does courses for AppSumo has a blog ( http://www.nevblog.com/ ) an…
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on “$21,243 in 8 Days: Why AppSumo is Going to Keep Crushing It”Submitted The Homeless Experiment as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWatch this: http://www.nevblog.com/mac-shortcuts-watch-this-if-you-use-a...
Comment linking /mac-shortcuts-watch-this-if-you-use-a-mac/
on “Ask HN: Just bought my first Mac. What should I know?”Submitted The Homeless Experiment as a story · 1 points
HN discussionCheck out this post ;) http://www.nevblog.com/people-just-copied-this-and-it-worked...
Comment linking /people-just-copied-this-and-it-worked/
on “Ask HN: reviewing a startup idea”Submitted The Instagram Experiment and Results as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I lost weight by accident as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Homeless Experiment as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The least-scammy affiliate ad I've ever seen as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to validate a taco stand as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Interview with good info about validating a business BEFORE building as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to optimize your E-Commerce website as a story · 1 points
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