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Public Comps
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Public Comps is the company blog at blog.publiccomps.com, writing about business, startups and economics. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Amplitude S-1 and IPO Teardown”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Public Comps for IPO teardowns of S-1 filings, such as Snowflake and UiPath, covering business metrics, product, market and competition. The comments only link the posts and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
SaaS company teardowns and insights
Most-linked posts?
- Amplitude S-1 and IPO Teardown2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-29
- Procore S-1 and IPO Teardown2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-29
What Hacker News says?
I just wrote a S-1 teardown of Snowflake: https://blog.publiccomps.com/snowflake-s1-ipo-teardown/ Would love feedback! Included some helpful quotes from this thread too on why Snowflake vs Redshift.
Comment linking /snowflake-s1-ipo-teardown/
on “Snowflake S-1”Submitted 5 SaaS Tools Every Startup Should Use in 2020 as a story · 7 points
HN discussionHere's a teardown of the UiPath S1 of the business metrics, product/market, competition, etc: https://blog.publiccomps.com/ui-path-s-1-ipo-teardown/
Comment linking /ui-path-s-1-ipo-teardown/
on “UiPath Inc S-1 SEC Form”Submitted How to forecast SaaS revenue better than the analysts as a story · 6 points
HN discussionS-1: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001866692/000119312... Analysis by Jimmy Zhou @ Public Comps: https://blog.publiccomps.com/amplitude-s-1-teardown/ Ticker: AMPL | https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AMPL
Comment linking /amplitude-s-1-teardown/
on “Amplitude (YC W12) is going public”Submitted A Primer on Databases as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Coming Wave: Post-Quantum Cryptography and the Future of Cybersecurity as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Palo Alto Network: The Long Thesis in Q2'25 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Amplitude S-1 and IPO Teardown as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Procore S-1 and IPO Teardown as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Primer on Semiconductor Capital Equipment (Semicap) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Procore – S-1 and IPO Teardown as a story · 1 points
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