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Safe from the Losing Fight

Personal blog · losingfight.com/blogprogrammingbusiness

Safe from the Losing Fight is a personal blog at losingfight.com about programming and business. Since 2007, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “A Postmortem of Failed Products”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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8mentions?
8HN people?
2007–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2008

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

Why HN links it

The thread is about pricing iPhone apps. One commenter points to another post by the same author as a better read, and no comment addresses the writing in this post directly.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. A Postmortem of Failed Products
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-12-04

What Hacker News says?

  1. The other post by the same author is a lot better: http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2008/11/07/can-you-make-a-li...

    Comment linking /blog/2008/11/07/can-you-make-a-living-off-an-iphone-app/

    on “How to price your iPhone app out of existence”
  2. Submitted A Postmortem of Failed Products as a story · 40 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted How to price your iPhone app out of existence as a story · 35 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Christmas and Compilers as a story · 26 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted A rant about cross-platform programming with wchar_t as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Safe from the Losing Fight: A day in the life of a software engineer as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted R.I.P. Macromedia FreeHand (2007) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted A Postmortem of Failed Products as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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