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Semil Shah

Personal blog · semilshah.wordpress.comstartupsbusiness

Semil Shah writes semil's blog, a personal blog at semilshah.wordpress.com about startups and business. Since 2010, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “Tomorrow is a Big Day For Sahil”. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.

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25mentions?
6HN people?
2010–2012first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 19 in 2011

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

Why HN links it

Linked in a thread on Gumroad's $1.1M funding. The quoted post describes the author introducing Gumroad's founder to investors, and the comment is only a quote from it, with no judgement of the writing.

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.

musings from palo alto

Most-linked posts?

  1. Tomorrow is a Big Day For Sahil
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-02-08
  2. The iOS App Store: Needles in Haystacks
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-10-13

What Hacker News says?

  1. citricsquid · 2012-02-09
    http://semilshah.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/tomorrow-is-a-big-... > He asked for some help around meeting investors. I was very happy to do this. I sent a few intro emails that were really short — “hey, you gotta meet this kid, kick ass front end engineer and designer with a lot of ambition, ready to go out on his own.” My emails were returned within hours, and in a few weeks, he had his pick of some of the best early…

    Comment linking /2012/02/08/tomorrow-is-a-big-day-for-sahil-shl/

    on “Gumroad Gets $1.1 Million To Turn Any Link Into A Payment System”
  2. kahseng · 2011-07-30

    Submitted The Thick Edge of Quora as a story · 34 points

    HN discussion
  3. semilshah · 2011-10-13

    Submitted The iOS App Store: Needles in Haystacks as a story · 19 points

    HN discussion
  4. semilshah · 2011-10-15

    Submitted The A16Z Effect on YC and Sand Hill as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  5. semilshah · 2012-02-08

    Submitted Tomorrow is a Big Day For Sahil as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. semilshah · 2011-11-19

    Submitted Deconstructing the "Occupy" Movement as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. sahillavingia · 2011-12-08

    Submitted The iOS App Store: Needles in Haystacks « semil's blog as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. semilshah · 2012-06-05

    Submitted A Tiny Trick to Tuning Twitter as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. semilshah · 2012-03-22

    Submitted The Hidden iPhone Battery Issue as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. semilshah · 2012-02-21

    Submitted A Real Timehop: Votizen as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. semilshah · 2011-11-12

    Submitted How I Write as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. semilshah · 2011-10-26

    Submitted Rethinking the Quora iPhone App as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. semilshah · 2011-10-23

    Submitted Why iOS5 Affects Battery Performance as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. semilshah · 2011-10-08

    Submitted Get.com: A New Take on e-Commerce as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. semilshah · 2011-10-04

    Submitted Quora Outside the Valley as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. semilshah · 2011-09-29

    Submitted The Quora Primer as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. sahillavingia · 2011-11-15

    Submitted The Degeneration of Premium Media Brands as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. semilshah · 2011-10-20

    Submitted Quick Bullet Point Takeaways from Web 2.0 Summit as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. semilshah · 2011-10-19

    Submitted Boiling Down Mary Meeker's Trends as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. semilshah · 2011-10-13

    Submitted Socioclean: A Reputation.com for Social Networks as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. semilshah · 2011-10-13

    Submitted The "Siri Effect" That's Impossible to Measure as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. semilshah · 2011-10-09

    Submitted The Aristotelian Investor Pitch as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. semilshah · 2011-10-06

    Submitted Twitter, Tumblr, and Pinterest "Reshape" Our Web as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. mhunter · 2011-09-23

    Submitted Prediction: Apple will acquire Instagram as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. andrewtbham · 2010-10-19

    Submitted Changing Dating Patterns in India, and group dating sites opportunity as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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