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Ross Hill
Personal blog · rosshill.com.au/articlestartupsweb
Ross Hill's personal blog at rosshill.com.au covers startups and web. Since 2008, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Entrepreneur meetups in Melbourne”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked across unrelated threads to support points about how large websites started small, about Melbourne's Silicon Beach startup community, and in a thread on paid subscription content. Cited as a source rather than praised.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Entrepreneur meetups in Melbourne2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-12-17
What Hacker News says?
I think you need to come at it more from the mindset that it's a small amount of money that people don't mind losing if it doesn't turn out, then you can be more natural and unfiltered about your thoughts. I think it also helps to think of the small payments people are paying as allowing you a little more freedom in having the experiences and thought which you are writing about. I like this explanation of using lett…
Comment linking /letterly/
on “The End of My Paid Subscription Content Experiment”Submitted Big Websites Start Small as a story · 34 points
HN discussionIt didn't actually start out like that. That's just a fairly recent screenshot. Here's a similar article with an older one: http://rosshill.com.au/big-websites-start-small/ (second from the top).
Comment linking /big-websites-start-small/
on “What 20 popular websites looked like at launch”Submitted Forget Google Analytics, try realtime web statistics as a story · 22 points
HN discussion'If there was a start-up culture in Melbourne, I'd move there in 2 seconds!' Whilst it's not huge, it's certainly growing. Silicon Beach is a community pushing technology innovation in Melbourne (and the rest of Australia). You can read a little more about it here: http://melbourne.siliconbeachaustralia.org/about-2/ and here: http://www.rosshill.com.au/article/silicon-beach-melbourne/
Comment linking /article/silicon-beach-melbourne/
on “Poll: Where are you from?”Submitted Entrepreneur meetups in Melbourne as a story · 10 points
HN discussion