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Thomas Petersen
Personal blog · 000fff.org · on HN as ThomPetedesignstartups
Thomas Petersen writes Black&White™, a personal blog at 000fff.org about design and startups. Since 2009, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 120 times, most often “The Problem with Problems”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link Thomas Petersen's personal site and a post on getting customer feedback and running a $5 guerrilla usability test. Other comments mention his Ghostnote app mockups.
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.
Essays by Thomas Petersen
Most-linked posts?
- The Problem with Problems6 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2015-08-26
- Product design tips for startups4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2009-11-11
- Slaves of the feed – This is not the realtime we’ve been looking for3 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2009-12-15
- The Power of Digital Ecosystems3 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2010-03-03
- Why Is Europe Failing to Create More Unicorns? (2015)3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-11-15
- Why everything you think about User Centred Design is wrong2 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2009-11-24
- Design Discussion Principles – How to get your client to love your design2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-03-09
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-04-07
- A simple model for innovation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-06-23
What Hacker News says?
https://www.000fff.org Because its guaranteed to be unique perspectives about things everyone take for granted and its written for clearing up somE of my own thinking. Especially “The problem with Problems”, “Slaves of the feed - This is not the real-time we’ve been looking for” and “The Ghost Protocol” should be interesting to anyone in the startup tech space.
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on “Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?”Submitted Why Is Europe Failing to Create More $1B Startups? as a story · 154 points
HN discussionhttp://www.ghostnoteapp.com/blog/2015/03/ although I am probably also going to put it on my personal blog http://www.000fff.org .
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on “Leaving the Mac App Store”Submitted Anatomy of a Noob - Why your Mom Suck at Computers as a story · 98 points
HN discussionclickable link: https://www.000fff.org
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted FinalTouch Income Report #1 as a story · 82 points
HN discussionSomehow tangential "These hidden problems are the true gold standard of entrepreneurism and it’s amazing how little discussion there actually is about how to find them. It’s hardly a surprise though since they; as we can see, can be hard to find and I think there are a couple of reasons why. Hidden problems aren’t obvious even to those who experience them every single day. Most people have enough human problems. The…
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on “How Completely Messed Up Practices Become Normal”Submitted The Problem with Problems as a story · 61 points
HN discussionI think there might be a book here somehow. A friend of my parents is a Renaissance man too he is nearing 70 now. In his younger years he reversed engineered the apple2 and excels in music, painting and and of course hacking like there is no tomorrow. He can literally build anything he wants to. He is an expert in assembler and and a couple of higher level languages, but it is his assembler skills that have always a…
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on “The microhydro plant”Submitted What’s in a name – Tips for naming your startup as a story · 55 points
HN discussionIt's not not an issue just because it doesn't apply to you. If you want to understand where I am coming from then this is why I think it's an issue http://000fff.org/slaves-of-the-feed-this-is-not-the-realtim...
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on “DuckDuckGo: Escape your search engine filter bubble”Submitted Slaves of the feed – This is not the realtime we’ve been looking for as a story · 53 points
HN discussionSo if you are bored. Go solve this one: http://000fff.org/slaves-of-the-feed-this-is-not-the-realtim...
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on “Did You Hear We Got Osama?”Submitted Beyond aesthetics – Design tips for startups as a story · 44 points
HN discussionThe problem is thinking that the metaphors we use are actually descriptive to outsiders. There is no such thing as an intuitive interface that isn't learned. I had the same encounter with my mom and although she had used a computer before the experience was just as crazy. http://000fff.org/anatomy-of-a-noob-why-your-mom-suck-at-com... Here is an excerpt from the conversation.
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on “User testing in the wild: he has never used a computer”Submitted Design Discussion Principles – How to get your client to love your design as a story · 41 points
HN discussionFriend of my parents is building this http://000fff.org/watches/523223_10150679399796150_150139365...
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on “Geneva drive”Submitted Why everything you think about User Centred Design is wrong as a story · 28 points
HN discussionYou can look at this from a slightly different angle: "...It is often said that “Youth is wasted on the young”. Based on my little spare time study, in this context, it seems truer than ever. The youth have all the energy and time to spend, no obligations and no financial worries. But they have very little life experience and exposure to these hidden problems. So what they end up solving are the kind of problems pri…
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on “How Can We Achieve Age Diversity in Silicon Valley?”Submitted Developers are from Mars, Designers from Venus – A question of metaphors as a story · 27 points
HN discussionThis is off topic but since a lot of people seem to be experts I just wanted to ask. Can someone explain this to me http://000fff.org/uploads/bitcoinprice.png The flat-lines. I have seen it several times. Is is because of lack of data of trading or lack of trading or what's making the price flatline like that?
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on “An $814M Mystery Near the Heart of the Biggest Bitcoin Exchange”Submitted Slaves of the feed - This is not the realtime we've been looking for as a story · 26 points
HN discussionThe best way I can elaborate is this essay I wrote last year http://000fff.org/why-is-europe-failing-to-create-more-unico... The TL;DR of parts of my theory is that harmonization is trying to solve a lot of problems politically which might as well be solved by startups and technology. Furthermore when you harmonize things you end up turning things that might be a problem in one country a law in a country where it is…
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on “Unity raises $181M round at a reported $1.5B valuation”Submitted The Ghost Protocol – Digital Identity for Immortals as a story · 21 points
HN discussionHi Thomas, I remember discussing Ghostnote with you when you were designing mockups back in October last year. Thrilled to see it released. Original mockup from october: http://000fff.org/uploads/24a818aa6352f1f8d4ad33bf3e90145bb1... Chat on #weekendhacker about the mockup: https://botbot.me/freenode/weekendhacker/2014-10-17/?msg=236...
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on “Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app”Submitted The Power of Digital Ecosystems as a story · 16 points
HN discussionAs always here in HN we tend to focus on the actual technology and platform rather than what it do for normal people. This is a great win both for Microsoft as it is for Nokia and as it is for the millions of people who are just regular phone users. Yes nokia will have to build an ecosystem ( http://000fff.org/the-power-of-digital-ecoystems/ ) But they still have huge market share with people who are not likely to c…
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on “Microsoft just bought Nokia for $0”Submitted One Aggregator to Rule them all - How to think like Facebook and Twitter as a story · 10 points
HN discussionA combination. From the day I started back in 2012 it was clear to me that in order for us to grow functionality to enough verticals in the merchant space we would have to build an API as that was the only way to actually allow for the platform to grow beyond what we could build internally. It was a hard push for a while though as the focus was in some of the other areas that made us actual money. The first inceptio…
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on “User experience design for APIs”Submitted How to get clients to love your design as a story · 9 points
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