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Trevor McKendrick
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Trevor McKendrick's personal blog at trevormckendrick.com covers startups and philosophy. Since 2012, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 46 times, most often “How to Choose a Profitable Niche”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Trevor McKendrick's posts on selling his Bible app company and his app store revenue, plus essays on freelancers, choosing profitable app niches and acquisition checklists.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Entrepreneur, investor, optimist. Startups, investing, and philosophy, and a weekly letter every Monday since 2018.
Most-linked posts?
- How to Choose a Profitable Niche3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-04-30
- How I Sold My Bible App Company3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-01-23
- My First Year in the App Store2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-04-23
- My 2nd Year in the App Store2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-04-28
- How Long Until We Know If Tim Cook Sucks?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-04-14
- What Everybody Should Know About Contracting Developers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-05-15
- Startups for the 99%2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-05-29
- /how-i-sold-my-bible-app-company-b984bdd1f57b2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-07-11
What Hacker News says?
Trevor here, creator of the Spanish Bible app. IkmoIkmo got this spot on in his/her comment. Biggest two mistakes people are making in this thread: 1. $100k was revenue, not profit. 2. I get capital gains rates on the sale, versus ordinary income rates. (If you didn't know about #2 you should probably sign up for my accounting and tax course for freelancers and entrepreneurs: http://trevormckendrick.com/accounting-c…
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on “How I Sold My Bible App Company”Submitted How I Sold My Bible App Company as a story · 422 points
HN discussionIs "winnings" the right word here? Seem like he solved a problem people were willing to pay for http://trevormckendrick.com/my-first-year-in-the-app-store/
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on “How I Sold My Bible App Company”Submitted How to Choose a Profitable Niche as a story · 260 points
HN discussionI've disclosed my App Store revenues before ( http://www.trevormckendrick.com/my-first-year-in-the-app-sto... and http://www.trevormckendrick.com/My-2nd-Year-in-the-App-Store... ). Apple can absolutely afford to do this financially, but the 70/30 split is practically the only thing that hasn't changed in the App Store since it launched. So why don't they? A few possibilities: - They have a similar split with music l…
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on “An Open Letter to Tim Cook Regarding the App Store 70/30 Revenue Split”Submitted My First Year in the App Store as a story · 255 points
HN discussionSure have :) Check out this post from last week: http://www.trevormckendrick.com/my-first-year-in-the-app-sto...
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on “How to Choose a Profitable Niche”Submitted What Everybody Should Know About Contracting Developers as a story · 119 points
HN discussionhttp://www.trevormckendrick.com/how-to-choose-a-profitable-n...
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on “Ask HN: Passive income ideas?”Submitted How to Attend a Conference as a story · 84 points
HN discussionI found the story of Trevor McKendrick who sold his bible app company [0] pretty interesting. There is also an article about him and his startup on Business Insider [1]. [0] https://trevormckendrick.com/how-i-sold-my-bible-app-company... [1] http://www.businessinsider.com/atheist-makes-100000-selling-...
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on “Ask HN: Single-person company exit”Submitted Startups for the 99% as a story · 66 points
HN discussionWrote a post on this a week ago: „The Ultimate-Guide to Hiring a Freelancer“ ( http://franzisk.us/2013/05/08/the-ultimate-guide-to-hiring-a... ). I usually go for oDesk but you better apply some filters to your search or select candidates by hand to apply to your job. I think your main problem is what Trevor McKendrick called “(you) Pay them to Code, not Think“ ( http://www.trevormckendrick.com/contracting-developer…
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on “Ask HN: What Freelancer site do you recommend?”Submitted How to find a profitable App Niche – Part 2 as a story · 43 points
HN discussionThis was on HN some time ago: http://www.trevormckendrick.com/my-first-year-in-the-app-sto...
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on “4 apps, one weekend”Submitted How to Find the Right Designer as a story · 21 points
HN discussionJust a heads up, the link to the part 1 of this series links to the second part. The first part is here: http://www.trevormckendrick.com/how-to-choose-a-profitable-n...
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on “How to find a profitable App Niche – Part 2”Submitted My 2nd Year in the App Store as a story · 13 points
HN discussionAsking with some self-interest for a project I'm working on: Is there anything in particular about the project that's frustrating/time-consuming? Or just the whole thing altogether? Projecting a bit here, but your dilemma seems to resonate really well with this essay, especially when you mentioned "indulging in the fantasy": https://www.trevormckendrick.com/essays/future-you-masturbat... Pains me to hear it makes yo…
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on “Ask HN: What's Holding You Back?”Submitted I lost 25 pounds using my Peloton as a story · 12 points
HN discussionTo the OP: the table looks really nice, but the article could have more "meat". Maybe you were afraid of retreading the material, but one short paragraph on each of the AARRR metrics and how the SaaS metrics affect them would make this more useful as a reference for the average bootstrapper. Also think how you can turn this into a series instead of a collection of articles. One obvious choice, since you are writing…
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on “Pirate Metrics Matrix for SaaS”Submitted Ignore every founder’s story on how they started their company as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI remember two good due-diligence check lists inside long articles explaining an acquisition. https://trevormckendrick.com/how-i-sold-my-bible-app-company... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11032480 ) http://jacquesmattheij.com/how-to-sell-your-company
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on “Ask HN: Looking for Old Post RE: Pre-Buyout Startup Legal and Accounting Checklist”Submitted Why is Everyone like Their Parents? as a story · 9 points
HN discussionThere's a break-down of the sales on the author/atheist/ex-Mormon's blog: > My 2nd year net revenue increased to $100,134, again after Apple’s cut. http://www.trevormckendrick.com/My-2nd-Year-in-the-App-Store...
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on “Is It Ethical for This Atheist to Make a Ton of Money Selling a Bible App?”Submitted How I Sold My Spanish Bible App Company as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Sold My Bible App Company as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why its okay to do less and talk more as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted 15 Frequent Tax Mistakes Made by Developers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's Okay to Suck as a story · 2 points
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