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w2lessons.com is a personal blog at w2lessons.com about startups, programming and business. Since 2010, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 50 times, most often “The Minimum Viable Product Dissected”. 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
HN commenters link w2lessons.com for posts explaining the minimum viable product as an experiment, and for a 2011 post on the economics of Dropbox. Most links are to the MVP posts.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- The Minimum Viable Product Dissected3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2010-10-28
- The Freeconomics of Dropbox - Projecting Freemium 2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-04-28
- The Economics of Dropbox2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-04-21
What Hacker News says?
A MVP, under the original definition[1], is a learning tool that helps you to learn the most about your hypothesis, with the least amount of waste.[2] Note that product under the MVP definition may not be a product under the most common use of the word.[3] [1] http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/08/minimum-viable-... [2] http://www.w2lessons.com/2010/10/minimum-viable-product-diss... [3] http://www.ashmaurya.c…
Comment linking /2010/10/minimum-viable-product-dissected.html
on “Show HN: The Honeybadger”Submitted The Economics of Dropbox as a story · 110 points
HN discussionI wrote about this some time ago. It's a great way to build web applications after you sort out the little kinks and intricacies. Some tips can be found in this post: http://www.w2lessons.com/2011/05/why-and-how-you-should-writ...
Comment linking /2011/05/why-and-how-you-should-write-rest.html
on “Modern Web Application Architecture”Submitted Your Users Won't Read as a story · 101 points
HN discussionNot to mention a big misconception of what a MVP is: only after you actually have a first version (whether it’s MVP or more extensive) out in the wild I recommend looking into: Your Product is NOT “The Product” [1] and The Minimum Viable Product Dissected [2] (its key line is For starters you must look at the MVP not as a product but as an experiment ) [1] http://www.readability.com/read?url=http://www.ashmaurya.com…
Comment linking /2010/10/minimum-viable-product-dissected.html
on “Avoid Customer Feedback Before Version 1.0”Submitted You Don't Know JavaScript as a story · 94 points
HN discussionGreat article on what a mvp is: http://www.w2lessons.com/2010/10/minimum-viable-product-diss... Another one[1]: Your Product is NOT “The Product” And finally[2] How Zynga Uses Ghetto Testing and Minimum Viable Products [1] http://www.ashmaurya.com/2011/06/your-product-is-not-the-pro... [2] http://grattisfaction.com/2010/01/how-zynga-does-customer-de...
Comment linking /2010/10/minimum-viable-product-dissected.html
on “How Lean should a start-up be?”Submitted CoffeeScript Means Giving Up on JavaScript as a story · 82 points
HN discussionSee http://www.w2lessons.com/2011/04/economics-of-dropbox.html and HN discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2470263
Comment linking /2011/04/economics-of-dropbox.html
on “What is the technology behind Dropbox?”Submitted Why and How You Should Write REST-Centric Applications as a story · 79 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why You Need to Learn JavaScript as a story · 52 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Month With Scala as a story · 51 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why are you Still Making Crap? Open Source to the Rescue as a story · 28 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's Not A Redesign If You Don't Cut Features as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Review of the Lean Startup Book as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted Crowdsourcing Your Way to Average as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lean Hiring in a Lean Startup as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Freeconomics of Dropbox - Projecting Freemium as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Freeconomics of Dropbox - Projecting Freemium as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dropbox Could Be a Goldmine - The Freeconomics of Dropbox as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Practical Advice for Computer Science Students as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Don't Know JavaScript as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple’s Commoditization of Cloud Storage, Should Dropbox Worry? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Giving Developers Feedback, Without Pissing Them Off as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lean Design For The Lean Startup (Minimum Viable Design) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Startup's Guide to Application Scaling as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Minimum Viable Product Dissected as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fast Zipping in Amazon S3 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AdWords Is Not A Marketing Strategy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 2 Years of Programming in 4 months as a story · 2 points
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