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Paritydeals
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Paritydeals is the company blog at paritydeals.com, writing about business and startups. Since 2022, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Paritydeals for its PPP calculator and country comparison charts on spending and salaries. One commenter disputes a chart's figures and the conclusion drawn from them.
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.
Launch usage-based billing, localized pricing, and any other model you can imagine. Ship pricing changes in minutes without touching your code.
What Hacker News says?
> Look at how much Switzerland spends per capita vs Germany. €477 vs €115 Your chart shows close to €200 spent by Deutschland per capita in 2024, before the abovementioned spending splurge (about €30/person/year). (The numbers 477 and 115 never appear in your source.) €230 in Berlin purchases about as much as €371 of CHF in Zürich [1]. So no, I’m not seeing evidence Germany needs to further 3x capital expenditure to…
Comment linking /ppp-calculator/switzerland-vs-germany/?salary=70000
on “All train services in Germany halted after train radio communications disruption”Submitted How I made $300K from an open-source side project using dual licensing as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThey're not low enough to offset the low wages, though. [0] puts $2/hr at around $15k/yr purchasing power in Chicago which sounds about right. People live with families in multi-generational homes until they're married, sometimes after. Retirement plans are your kids looking after you. Prices also aren't lowered across the board - it's mostly housing and anything where labor is a major part of the cost. Cars are sim…
Comment linking /ppp-calculator/
on “The $2 per hour worker behind the OnlyFans boom”Submitted Show HN: ParityDeals – Stripe billing without writing webhooks or custom scripts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionRandom google converter tells me the amount mentioned by OP for average developer salary of INR 4,20,000 gets to be $18,152 when PPP converted to USD. Is that an average developer salary in US? Something tells me it is not. https://www.paritydeals.com/ppp-calculator/india-vs-united-s...
Comment linking /ppp-calculator/india-vs-united-states/?salary=791976&source_city=mumbai&target_city=new-york
on “Ask HN: Did you know what average developer salaries are in India?”Submitted I quit my job to build my own startup as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: ParityDeals – Purchasing power parity pricing for digital products as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I made $350K from an open-source JavaScript library using dual licensing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted OpenAI doubled subscribers in India with a ₹399 ($5) plan as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why purchasing power parity pricing is a must for digital products? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Increased Revenue by 15% Just by Offering Purchasing Power Parity Pricing as a story · 1 points
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