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Peter Armstrong
Personal blog · peterarmstrong.combusinesswritingstartups
Peter Armstrong writes Tumblr, a personal blog at peterarmstrong.com about business, writing and startups. Since 2007, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “The Lifecycle of Information Distribution”. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters, including people tied to Leanpub, cite these posts as sources on e-book DRM, earnings from a self-published Rails book, a startup idea, and a treadmill desk setup.
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.
Cofounder of Leanpub & Author of Lean Publishing
Most-linked posts?
- The Lifecycle of Information Distribution2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-03-22
What Hacker News says?
No, there is not and we don't plan on adding any when we submit them to Amazon. Here's Peter's/our take on DRM: http://www.peterarmstrong.com/?p=257 (this is slightly out of date, since Peter only talks about PDFs in the post).
Comment linking /?p=257
on “E-books Are Not That Easy”Submitted A book is a startup, so use lean startup principles as a story · 19 points
HN discussionMy cofounder at Leanpub wrote up his experience publishing "Flexible Rails" here: http://www.peterarmstrong.com/?p=266 Here's the tl;dr: * Peter made $48k from Flexible Rails. * $34k of that was from sales of the PDF. I'm biased, but it seems to me that giving away the PDF (where you make close to 100% profit) to sell a paper book (where you make much less -- The 40% profit from the article is by far the highest I'v…
Comment linking /?p=266
on “So you’re thinking about self-publishing an I.T. book?”Submitted Technology book adoption lifecycle as a story · 1 points
HN discussion"The iPod of water coolers, producing flat and bubbly water from tap water." details here: http://peterarmstrong.com/articles/2007/08/19/company-1-turn...
Comment linking /articles/2007/08/19/company-1-turn-tap-water-into-premium-flat-and-bubbly-water-via-the-ipod-of-water-coolers
on “Startup idea list”Submitted The Lifecycle of Information Distribution as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI built my own at my office, and I liked it so much that I made another one for my home office. Here's the setup of my home office one: http://peterarmstrong.com/post/37021212588/sit-stand-treadmi... I have made some tweaks to that setup, but the basic idea is the same. (The tweak was to create a way to use my SteelSeries 7G along with my laptop + monitors setup.) Here's the adjustments: http://peterarmstrong.com/po…
Comment linking /post/41881767291/my-sit-stand-treadmill-desk-has-gotten-one-update
on “Treadmill desks: How practical are they?”
