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Sacha Greif

Personal blog · sachagreif.com · on HN as sgdesigndesignstartups

Sacha Greif's personal blog at sachagreif.com covers design and startups. Since 2009, 42 different Hacker News readers have linked it 116 times, most often “Lessons Learned from an eBook Launch”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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116mentions?
42HN people?
2009–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 75 in 2012

The author on HN?

sgdesign · 6,711 karma · member since 2009

Creator of http://www.telescopeapp.org and co-author of http://www.discovermeteor.com . You can find my blog at http://www.sachagreif.com or hit me up on twitter (@SachaGreif).

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

Most-linked posts?

  1. /ebook/
    6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2012-03-20
  2. Lessons Learned from an eBook Launch
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-04-19
  3. Step by Step UI Design
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-03-20
  4. Flat Pixels
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-02-12
  5. Just a Big List of Free Design Stuff
    2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2011-12-30
  6. /
    2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2011-12-18
  7. A selection of Google Webfonts that don't suck
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-01-19
  8. How I Designed Code Year in 1 Hour
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-01-03
  9. /
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-11-22
  10. What skeuomorphism is (and isn't)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-09-12

What Hacker News says?

  1. Here's a great article that discusses the 'Metro', or 'Flat' design pattern that is now gracing the shores of many new up and coming projects and websites → http://sachagreif.com/the-flat-sink/

    Comment linking /the-flat-sink/

    on “Flat UI: Free Web User Interface Kit”
  2. Submitted Please Learn to Code as a story · 654 points

    HN discussion
  3. VPS. http://sachagreif.com runs on it and got to the top 5 of HN many times without any trouble (I'm using W3 Total Cache). The only reason I'm thinking about switching away is that their control panel is a little messy, and they don't support Git deployment out of the box (although you can activate it via ssh, which is what I did). It also feels faster than PHPFog for some reason, especially the WordPress admin. So…

    Comment linking /

    on “My experience with WPEngine”
  4. Submitted Step by Step UI Design as a story · 315 points

    HN discussion
  5. Sorry, can't help you with this… drop me a line on http://sachagreif.com/contact and I'll send you the PSD. If it works, you can buy it then :)

    Comment linking /contact

    on “Step by Step UI Design”
  6. Submitted Undo as a story · 300 points

    HN discussion
  7. Sorry about that, not sure if it's a problem on my end or on Quixly's ( http://quixly.com ). If anybody else encounters that situation, drop me a line ( http://sachagreif.com/contact ) and I'll send you the eBook directly.

    Comment linking /contact

    on “Step by Step UI Design”
  8. Submitted Flat Pixels as a story · 265 points

    HN discussion
  9. drop me a line at http://sachagreif.com/contact and I'll send you the eBook, you can pay me later once your browser feels better :)

    Comment linking /contact

    on “Step by Step UI Design”
  10. Submitted The Flat Sink as a story · 260 points

    HN discussion
  11. Very nice list! I recently also wrote on this topic: http://sachagreif.com/google-webfonts-that-dont-suck/

    Comment linking /google-webfonts-that-dont-suck/

    on “Beautiful web type: highlighting the best of the Google web fonts directory”
  12. Submitted Why cheap customers cost more as a story · 226 points

    HN discussion
  13. I also wrote about why and how I wrote this essay here: http://sachagreif.com/making-flat-pixels/ Basically it was a good exercise in responsive design, and was also a chance for me to try out publishing a book on Amazon. And since this is just static HTML, it was also nice to write something completely free of the constraints of a blog layout and see how the content shaped the design. In fact, I'm now thinking I mi…

    Comment linking /making-flat-pixels/

    on “Flat Pixels”
  14. Submitted I'm Not Japanese as a story · 189 points

    HN discussion
  15. Agreed. These are great books, but "design for hackers" implies that these book will help you "hack" design, which they won't. These books will help you get a better understanding of the principles of good design at root level, but they won't do much if you're just looking to make your app look or work better. On the other hand, these books are much more practical: http://bootstrappingdesign.com/ http://designforhac…

    Comment linking /ebook

    on “Design Books Every Hacker Should Read”
  16. Submitted How I Designed Code Year in 1 Hour as a story · 183 points

    HN discussion
  17. I'd definitely use this on my blog ( http://sachagreif.com ) if it was officially supported (or at least tolerated) by HN somehow. And the fact that people can only comment if they have an HN account makes it even better!

    Comment linking /

    on “Show HN: Hacker News Comments”
  18. Submitted Simplified Sign-Up and Log-In Flows as a story · 139 points

    HN discussion
  19. Then let me make it a super extra fun year :) http://sachagreif.com/the-design-freebies-list/

    Comment linking /the-design-freebies-list/

    on “How I Designed Code Year in 1 Hour”
  20. Submitted What skeuomorphism is (and isn't) as a story · 103 points

    HN discussion
  21. * http://sachagreif.com/google-webfonts-that-dont-suck/

    Comment linking /google-webfonts-that-dont-suck/

    on “Diving into AngularJS”
  22. Submitted The Side-Project Project as a story · 95 points

    HN discussion
  23. You can use the contact form on my site: http://sachagreif.com or do it via twitter: http://twitter.com/SachaGreif

    Comment linking /

    on “"Time-saving" Generators for Designers”
  24. Submitted Design Details of Google Maps for iOS as a story · 91 points

    HN discussion
  25. I'm a developer too, for the last year I've been working on my UI & UX skills - and I've somehow managed to get paid to built out product features for the web (UI, UX + code) professionally. Here's what I figured out (YMMV): --- For UI design Books aren't that helpful, you have learn by doing. Instead, for theory Treehouse offers a primer on HTML, CSS & UI design which provided a great foundation, they have courses…

    Comment linking /ebook/

    on “Ask HN: Recommendations for learning and improving UX/UI skills?”
  26. Submitted The Toolbox: From Idea to Launch in 10 Hours as a story · 87 points

    HN discussion
  27. Ran a course. Sold a screencast. (Over $10k within 2 months for both.) A little busy to go into details right now but there have been lots of posts with similar case studies on HN - one of the better ones was http://sachagreif.com/lessons-learned-from-an-ebook-launch/

    Comment linking /lessons-learned-from-an-ebook-launch/

    on “Ask HN: How have you made "quick" money before?”
  28. Submitted Doing vs Telling as a story · 87 points

    HN discussion
  29. Congrats! Since the article indirectly mentions me, I wanted to say I also published a similar post about selling my own eBook yesterday: http://sachagreif.com/lessons-learned-from-an-ebook-launch/

    Comment linking /lessons-learned-from-an-ebook-launch/

    on “4 Months Of eBook Sales”
  30. Submitted How Sacha Greif and Nathan Barry sold $39k worth of eBooks as a story · 81 points

    HN discussion

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