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The Boomerang Blog
Company blog · blog.boomerangapp.comproductivitybusiness
The Boomerang Blog is the company blog at blog.boomerangapp.com, writing about productivity and business. Since 2018, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link The Boomerang Blog's posts on email habits, such as how to end an email and whether closing with "thanks" gets replies, and on what is hurting the US Postal Service.
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.
What Hacker News says?
These losses are primarily the fault of congress, not the USPS. ridiculous things like ePacket: https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/11/05/how-the-... combined with lack of control over their business model and having to meet requirements that other businesses don't: https://blog.boomerangapp.com/2016/10/whats-killing-the-post...
Comment linking /2016/10/whats-killing-the-post-office-its-not-email/
on “Updated Request for Startups”Submitted Closing email with “thanks” gets the most replies as a story · 180 points
HN discussionThey seem to have (somewhat) controlled for it: https://blog.boomerangapp.com/2017/01/how-to-end-an-email-em...
Comment linking /2017/01/how-to-end-an-email-email-sign-offs/
on “Closing email with “thanks” gets the most replies”Submitted If you want people to show up, data shows these are the best meeting times as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to migrate your iOS app from free to paid subscription as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted GQueues Is Now Part of Boomerang as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Email Etiquette: How to Write Subject Line-Only Email as a story · 1 points
HN discussion