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Tom Moor
Personal blog · blog.tommoor.comstartupsprogramming
Tom Moor's personal blog at blog.tommoor.com covers startups and programming. Since 2012, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “You Should Open Source Your Product”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one comment, in a MongoDB thread, discusses analytics work and open-source analytics code. It neither praises nor criticises the linked writing, so HN readers' view of the blog is unclear.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Tom Moor is a founder and full-stack software engineer with a passion for product design and sweating the details.
Most-linked posts?
- You Should Open Source Your Product2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-01-02
- Lessons Learnt Raising Our Million Dollar Seed Round2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-09-09
What Hacker News says?
> Until you want some analytics. I can actually respond to this specifically, as we recently had a project that needed us to build some decently-sized and complex analytics into their app. I spent about a month researching how most analytics solutions are structured and work, and became very familiar with the codebase for FnordMetric, which is one such open-source analytics solution. You wouldn't initially think it…
Comment linking /post/24059620728/realtime-analytics-at-buffer-with-mongodb
on “Why You Should Never Use MongoDB”Submitted Show HN: Updated Hacker News Chrome Extension as a story · 59 points
HN discussionNot from day one, I wrote about the decision here :) https://blog.tommoor.com/2019/01/01/you-should-open-source-y...
Comment linking /2019/01/01/you-should-open-source-your-product/
on “I wouldn't invest in open-source companies, even though I ran one”Submitted Scaling a Lean Startup, The Story So Far. as a story · 43 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Amazing Way to Get Customer Feedback and Build a Community as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Build Company Transparency and Reduce Email Using WordPress P2 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sign Up or Sign In, Does it Even Matter? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Should Open Source Your Product as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tinycon: A small library for manipulating the favicon as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons Learnt Raising Our Million Dollar Seed Round as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Internal Dogfooding Matters So Much as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reclaim Your Privacy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons learnt from 3 years building team communication products as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dealing with Timezones in Distributed Teams as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons Learnt Raising Our Million Dollar Seed Round as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted There Are Always More Users as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Source Your Product (2019) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Eating Your Own Dogfood Matters as a story · 1 points
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