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The Making of Close
Company blog · making.close.comprogrammingweb
The Making of Close is the company blog at making.close.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2021, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The Making of Close is the engineering blog of Close, a remote CRM company. The comments only link it in hiring posts and say nothing about the articles themselves.
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.
Behind the scenes of how we build product.
What Hacker News says?
Remote (US) Close ( https://close.com ) | Senior/Staff Backend Engineer, Backend Platform | Full-time We're bootstrapped, profitable, and 130 people, all remote, building an AI-powered CRM. We're spinning up a new Backend Platforms team and you'd be one of the first hires — unusual influence over what it owns. You'd build for other engineers: the paved-road patterns under our Python/Flask API layer (REST + GraphQL,…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)”Submitted PostgreSQL Statistics, Indexes, and Pareto Data Distributions as a story · 49 points
HN discussionClose | REMOTE | Various roles CRM + sales automation for >5k startups and SMBs. We're a small team of ~70, profitable, and have been in the market for 10 years. Learn more and apply: https://www.close.com/careers Engineering blog: https://making.close.com/
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2023)”Submitted How We Improved Reliability of our WebSocket Connections as a story · 41 points
HN discussionSubmitted Communicating with React Native Web Views as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Representing Enums in PostgreSQL as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to connect to PostgreSQL (and other data stores) reliably as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Taming the Test Console as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing a Technical Specification for Feature Development as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Documenting best practices in your codebase as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Picked a Platform for Our Mobile App as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Event Log at Close CRM as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rendering untrusted HTML email, safely as a story · 1 points
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