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skatter is a personal blog at skattertech.com about startups and hardware. Since 2011, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “"I Won The Windows Phone Challenge, But Lost 'Just Because'"”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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7mentions?
7HN people?
2011–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked posts are about startups and tech, such as building a startup 'dream team'. These comments only report a broken-link bug and quote a different article in a sarcastic way, so they say nothing about the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

a collection of sahas's thoughts

Most-linked posts?

  1. "I Won The Windows Phone Challenge, But Lost 'Just Because'"
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-03-26

What Hacker News says?

  1. > But Windows Phone is entering a dangerous time, one in which its competitors are starting to catch up and even surpass the innovations of Microsoft’s mobile platform. What alternate universe was this article written in? I've wanted to give Windows Phone a chance since they released the newer version, but it literally has nothing to offer other than a slightly more minimalistic default UI. Does no one remember the…

    Comment linking /2012/03/i-won-the-windows-phone-challenge-but-lost-just-because/

    on “Google Now's smartphone is the real deal ”
  2. Submitted "I Won The Windows Phone Challenge, But Lost 'Just Because'" as a story · 408 points

    HN discussion
  3. Quick bug report: some of the links at the top don't include a protocol, so browsers will interpret them as being relative. (e.g. http://skattertech.com/2012/05/how-to-build-a-dream-team/www... )

    Comment linking /2012/05/how-to-build-a-dream-team/www.ifeelgoods.com

    on “How to build the Startup Dream Team?”
  4. Submitted How My Smart Phone Contributed To Getting Me Out Of A Speeding Ticket as a story · 97 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted How to build the Startup Dream Team? as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Samsung, I am done with the Galaxy Tab 10.1 as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted 5 Features That Could Revolutionize TiVo Again as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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