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Simon’s Newsletter
Personal blog · simonberens.com/paistartupsbusiness
Simon’s Newsletter is a personal blog at simonberens.com about ai, startups and business. Since 2023, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Lessons Learned Shipping 500 Units of My First Hardware Product”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Simon's newsletter for hardware-startup lessons, such as shipping 2,500 MIDI recorders and shipping 500 units, and for a post on hiring five people to sit behind him.
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.
questionable opinions.
Most-linked posts?
- Lessons Learned Shipping 500 Units of My First Hardware Product4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-02-01
- I Hired 5 People to Sit Behind Me and Make Me Productive for a Month3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-03-26
What Hacker News says?
Not sure if you'll see this reply, but I thought this might be of interest: https://www.simonberens.com/p/lessons-learned-shipping-500-u...
Comment linking /p/lessons-learned-shipping-500-units
on “Y Combinator website no longer lists Canada as a country it invests in”Submitted I Hired 5 People to Sit Behind Me and Make Me Productive for a Month as a story · 16 points
HN discussionPrevious discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34657478 I didn't realize this, but the archive link is unnecessary. Link to original artwork: https://www.simonberens.com/p/i-hired-5-people-to-sit-behind...
Comment linking /p/i-hired-5-people-to-sit-behind-me
on “I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month (2023)”Submitted Lessons Learned Shipping 500 Units of My First Hardware Product as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFirmly agree. A lot of the lessons you mentioned have been discussed previously on HN threads for hardware startups. This is one of my favorites: https://www.simonberens.com/p/lessons-learned-shipping-500-u... HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46848876
Comment linking /p/lessons-learned-shipping-500-units
on “What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard”Submitted Why can't America teach writing? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bing Chat Is a Precursor to Something Legitimately Dangerous as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Substack Has an 11.5x Higher Conversion Rate Than Squarespace as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Hired 5 People to Sit Behind Me and Make Me Productive for a Month as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons Learned Shipping 500 Units of My First Hardware Product as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Default advantages AI will have over humans as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Can't American Teach Writing? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Substack Decupled My Subscriber Growth as a story · 1 points
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