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Tracy Osborn
Personal blog · limedaring.comcareerstartups
Tracy Osborn's personal blog at limedaring.com covers career and startups. Since 2010, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “I'm a designer who learned Django and launched her first webapp in 6 weeks”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Tracy Osborn's posts on a 28-hour day and on a designer who learned Django. The comments are bare links and jokes, with no judgement of the writing.
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.
Tracy Osborn is a designer, former startup founder, and general manager at TinySeed and MicroConf.
Most-linked posts?
- I'm a designer who learned Django and launched her first webapp in 6 weeks2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2011-02-16
- Technical cofounder wanted for disrupting the wedding industry2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-07-27
- Hacking Your Week: The 28 Hour Day2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-07-28
What Hacker News says?
Exactly. I worked on my startup for a little over a year before my current awesome cofounder joined me (approached me since I had already "proven" myself, I wasn't explicitly searching). Big fan of just leaping forward and doing it yourself. Self-promotion, two articles I wrote on the subject: "I'm a designer who learned Django and launched her first webapp in 6 weeks" http://www.limedaring.com/im-a-designer-who-lea…
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on “Applications Open for Winter 2013 YC Funding”Submitted I'm a designer who learned Django and launched her first webapp in 6 weeks as a story · 490 points
HN discussionI have an Art & Design degree with a graphic design concentration, and nowadays I'm a designer/developer/entrepreneur/bit of everything. I wrote a post quite a bit ago about my process learning how to code: https://limedaring.com/articles/im-a-designer-who-learned-dj...
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on “Ask HN: Does anyone here have an art degree?”Submitted Technical cofounder wanted for disrupting the wedding industry as a story · 224 points
HN discussionThis mirrors a lot of my own feelings (being a single founder myself). I originally applied for YC for the W11 round, and I rushed to find a cofounder before applying (even wrote this for HN: http://www.limedaring.com/technical-co-founder-wanted-for-di... ) I spent a few weeks "interviewing" cofounders and working with a few, before choosing one and starting to build a product and applied (and scored an interview) f…
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on “If I were a single founder...”Submitted I was underpaid for years and I didn't know it as a story · 208 points
HN discussionHa yeah — I wrote an article about finding a cofounder the traditional way a year ago ( http://www.limedaring.com/technical-co-founder-wanted-for-di... ) — well, that didn't work out. This article really is my followup to that article, that I should have just jumped forward then and started working rather than doing a few months of searching for the "right cofounder"! Thank you!
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on “How to thrive as a solo non-technical founder”Submitted Take control of your email and achieve inbox zero as a story · 46 points
HN discussionPortfolio is now online: http://limedaring.com/portfolio/
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2012) ”Submitted How I run a bootstrapped marketplace with 11 sites and 5,000 vendors – by myself as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK — based in San Jose, CA, remote okay I'm a web designer turned Django programmer, but web design is my strength and I'm mainly looking for design/HTML/CSS/JS projects. Portfolio: * http://weddinglovely.com * http://weddinginvitelove.com * http://weddinglovely.com/blog/ * http://rapportive.com * http://www.limedaring.com/dotcloud/ * http://www.limedaring.com/zerocater/ * http://www.limedaring.com/tweogra…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2012) ”Submitted Small-business customer acquisition for your freemium product launch as a story · 32 points
HN discussionHow about 28 hour day? http://www.limedaring.com/hacking-your-week-the-28-hour-day/
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on “How I Made a 26-Hour Day”Submitted Hacking Your Week: The 28 Hour Day as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSometimes it's fun to write a story, rather than a lesson. :) I've written more about my startup experiences here with less prose and more instruction: * http://blog.limedaring.com/why-im-an-entrepreneur * http://www.limedaring.com/the-worst-enemy-to-my-startup-is-d... * http://www.limedaring.com/im-a-designer-who-learned-django-a...
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on “Allegory on bootstrapping”Submitted The worst enemy to my startup is depression as a story · 12 points
HN discussionBut are those created by Hacker News posters? http://www.limedaring.com/im-a-designer-who-learned-django-a... I definitely intend to use that service for my next few marriages.
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on “WeddingInviteLove: A Comprehensive Wedding Invitation Designer Directory”Submitted Attending events as an introvert: Make one meaningful connection as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Conference speaking burnout – or leveling up – Tracy Osborn as a story · 1 points
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