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The Sold team has joined Dropbox

Company blog · usesold.com/blogstartupsprogramming

The Sold team has joined Dropbox is the company blog at usesold.com, writing about startups and programming. Since 2013, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Sold just got acquired by Dropbox and closed their company”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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10mentions?
9HN people?
2013–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Sold, a startup that took unwanted items off people's hands and sold them, as an example of a service for clearing out possessions. The comments do not discuss any writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

The Sold team has joined Dropbox

Most-linked posts?

  1. Sold just got acquired by Dropbox and closed their company
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2013-04-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. Sold did a good job on this... See "What was Sold?" http://www.usesold.com

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    on “Dropbox acquires Hackpad (YC W12)”
  2. Submitted Sold just got acquired by Dropbox and closed their company as a story · 101 points

    HN discussion
  3. Yep - Sold. http://usesold.com/

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    on “The Get-Rid-Of-Crap-Every-Month Club”
  4. Submitted In 2 Minutes - From Zero to Elasticsearch with Mongoose as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  5. I think that this is a great idea and it kind of reminds me of http://usesold.com/ with an expanded scope. I'm constantly packing up things into bags for AMVETS, but having a box sent to me that automatically gets picked up would be awesome.

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    on “The Get-Rid-Of-Crap-Every-Month Club”
  6. Submitted Scalability Through Event and Session Tracking With Angler.js as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  7. This startup is doing exactly that - http://usesold.com/

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    on “Sell everything”
  8. Submitted Sold - app that sells for you as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted How to create an effective promo video as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted The Sold team has joined Dropbox as a story · 1 points

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