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Open Indie
Personal blog · blog.erlend.shbusinessprogramming
Open Indie is a personal blog at blog.erlend.sh about business and programming. Since 2014, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 52 times, most often “Indie social sign-in could go mainstream”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Writing about open & equitable product development
Most-linked posts?
- Indie social sign-in could go mainstream3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-09-05
- Web of the People2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-04-10
- Lemmy front end alternatives are popping off2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-29
- Transitioning /r/Rust to the Threadiverse2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-28
- Communal Bonfires2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-14
- Credit Your GenAI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-04
- Reclaiming My Digital Identity2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-09
What Hacker News says?
On that note, I’ll share my personal “FAANG-remedy” project here: https://blog.erlend.sh/reclaiming-my-digital-identity I’m working on this with a dozen or so loosely connected, values-aligned people distributed across the globe. Matrix is a key part of the puzzle. You’re very welcome to just hang out and see if anything our collective is engaged in sparks your interest.
Comment linking /reclaiming-my-digital-identity
on “Ask HN: Burnt out from big tech. What's next?”Submitted Your self as a future adversary as a story · 21 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.erlend.sh/ Writing about open source, ethical product/company building and communication software.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Non-Consensual Technology as a story · 17 points
HN discussionAgreed, and working on it: https://blog.erlend.sh/assembling-community-os
Comment linking /assembling-community-os
on “The Stack Overflow Creative Commons Data Dump has been turned off”Submitted Dark Incentives: Your app doesn't love you (2022) as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Indie social sign-in could go mainstream as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Saving democracy for the price of a swimming pool as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Social Proof of Work as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Age of Coordination as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Massive Multiplayer Governance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Credit Your GenAI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Web of the People as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cozy Community Software as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Transitioning /r/Rust to the Threadiverse as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Every greenfield OSS project should join Mastodon as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Juicy Clients for the Federated Web as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Web of the People as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Against Loneliness as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted People on the Fediverse as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dark Incentives: Your app doesn't love you as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Business makes better open source as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What you (don't) get from an open source project as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Fair Share Clause as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Foundation redefined – Going back to specialised applications as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Indie social-sign – Call for action for support as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Indie social sign-in could go mainstream as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Earnest AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Credit Your GenAI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reclaiming My Digital Identity as a story · 1 points
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