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The Robin Blog
Company blog · robinpowered.com/blogbusinessproductivity
The Robin Blog is the company blog at robinpowered.com, writing about business and productivity. Since 2015, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “How we organize GitHub issues: A simple style guide for tagging [~2016]”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as a source for workplace and engineering how-tos, including setting up room calendar resources, tagging GitHub issues, and organizing feature work. One commenter used the post on feature building for ideas.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Bring booking, operations, and space planning together in one platform built to take the work out of running your workplace.
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/how-to-set-up-room-resource-calendars-in-google-apps/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-06-23
- How we organize GitHub issues: A simple style guide for tagging [~2016]2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-14
What Hacker News says?
At about 150 sq.ft per employee ( https://robinpowered.com/blog/new-office-determine-right-off... .) that means 80,000 employees vacated office space.
Comment linking /blog/new-office-determine-right-office-space-size/
on “Nearly 12M Square Feet of Vacant Office Space in S.F”Submitted How we organize GitHub issues: A simple styleguide for tagging as a story · 84 points
HN discussionYou're probably using a Calendar Resource. Here's a how-to guide for the curious: https://robinpowered.com/blog/how-to-set-up-room-resource-ca... And the official support page: https://support.google.com/a/answer/1686462?hl=en
Comment linking /blog/how-to-set-up-room-resource-calendars-in-google-apps/
on “The new Google Calendar for web”Submitted Show HN: Robin – OpenTable for your office as a story · 50 points
HN discussionThank you for sharing. Even thou I have a lot fewer projects and majority of my work happens on the projects of clients - I managed to take away some useful ideas and tips. Specifically using "issue" as a place where everything gets tied together and combining all aspects of a feature into a single main-branch commit is something I will try to do more from now on. Since your workflow is so GitHub centered, one place…
Comment linking /blog/best-practice-system-for-organizing-and-tagging-github-issues
on “My process for building a feature”Submitted Using motion sensors to automatically schedule meetings as a story · 10 points
HN discussionIt happened. https://gist.github.com/omegahm/28d87a4e1411c030aa89 via https://robinpowered.com/blog/best-practice-system-for-organ...
Comment linking /blog/best-practice-system-for-organizing-and-tagging-github-issues/
on “How we organize GitHub issues: A simple styleguide for tagging”Submitted The motivation behind WeWork's innovative office design – Robin at Work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWe have some suggestions for setting up tablets at the bottom of this page https://robinpowered.com/room-display Some customers have been 3D printing their own mounts, which is pretty awesome.
Comment linking /room-display
on “Show HN: Robin – OpenTable for your office”Submitted How we organize GitHub issues: A simple style guide for tagging [~2016] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSeems expensive. Can do the same thing with a shared resource in google calendar. https://robinpowered.com/blog/how-to-set-up-room-resource-ca...
Comment linking /blog/how-to-set-up-room-resource-calendars-in-google-apps/
on “Show HN: Robin – OpenTable for your office”Submitted The trouble with open offices, and how you can manage them better as a story · 1 points
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