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Personal blog · blog.race-conditions.net/posts · on HN as Winterflow3rprogrammingstartupsbusiness

Race Conditions is a personal blog at blog.race-conditions.net about programming, startups and business. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Lessons from One Year of Bootstrapping”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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9mentions?
3HN people?
2018–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2020

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked in an HN thread on solo Christmas and New Year activities. The only comment reports an expired TLS certificate and a 404 GitHub link, and says nothing about the writing or its topics.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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The author on HN?

Winterflow3r · 696 karma · member since 2015

Building Synbyote, a colour search engine company, synbyote.io Also https://lipcolourmatch.com Some random thoughts here http://winterflower.github.io/ Tech blog https://blog.race-conditions.net/

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

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    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-05
  2. Lessons from One Year of Bootstrapping
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-12-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. Hi! Sorry for hijacking this topic a bit, but I'm a computer programmer interested in medicine - could I ask you a few questions about your experience? you can reach me at camilla[at]synbyote.io and here is some info about me https://race-conditions.net/ https://blog.race-conditions.net/

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who's looking for a co-founder?”
  2. Submitted Lessons from One Year of Bootstrapping as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. I built a colour search engine for lipcolour products that's had a fairly good response from the beauty community! Main UI: http://lipcolourmatch.com/ Map of colourfamilies: http://lipcolourmatch.com/colourfamilies Gallery interface: http://lipcolourmatch.com/browse-all Main lesson: * Making money with affiliate models in this space can be hard if you don't already have a big existing audience (ie. from a Youtube ch…

    Comment linking /posts/experimenting-with-the-affiliate-business-model-for-tech-microbusinesses/

    on “Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?”
  4. Submitted Lessons from One Year of Bootstrapping as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. FYI https://blog.race-conditions.net/ 's cert has expired, and the GitHub link under its header 404s. Edit: realised that's a bit dry. Good luck with the cute guy and enjoy New Year's!

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: What are the single person activities in Christmas and/or New Year?”
  6. Submitted Building colour search engines: designing for colour comparison as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Building a (lip)colour search engine in Python as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Colour Search Engine Design: Designing for Colour Comparison as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Experimenting with the Affiliate Business Model for Tech Microbusinesses as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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