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Peter Bihr
Personal blog · thewavingcat.comstartupspolitics
Peter Bihr writes The Waving Cat, a personal blog at thewavingcat.com about startups and politics. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-14, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Peter Bihr's blog is linked in a thread on a German startup acquisition. The one comment discusses a perceived trend of German startups copying US products and does not evaluate the writing.
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What Hacker News says?
Hard evidence? No. And I'm not even saying that Germany has that much more (or more per capita ) than some other countries. It's just an annoying trend that I've noticed (and I'm not the only one, cf. links at the end). Don't get me wrong, there are many interesting startups, especially the smaller ones. But for a time there was an alarming trend of just taking an US product, and creating a German version of it. And…
Comment linking /2011/09/03/defending-the-german-copycat/
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