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Personal blog · w2lessons.com · on HN as mwbizstartupsprogrammingbusiness

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.

50mentions?
10HN people?
2010–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 38 in 2011

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.

The author on HN?

mwbiz · 855 karma · member since 2010

www.w2lessons.com www.twitter.com/mwbiz

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Minimum Viable Product Dissected
    3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2010-10-28
  2. The Freeconomics of Dropbox - Projecting Freemium
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-04-28
  3. The Economics of Dropbox
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-04-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. 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”
  2. Submitted The Economics of Dropbox as a story · 110 points

    HN discussion
  3. I 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”
  4. Submitted Your Users Won't Read as a story · 101 points

    HN discussion
  5. Not 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”
  6. Submitted You Don't Know JavaScript as a story · 94 points

    HN discussion
  7. Great 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?”
  8. Submitted CoffeeScript Means Giving Up on JavaScript as a story · 82 points

    HN discussion
  9. See 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?”
  10. Submitted Why and How You Should Write REST-Centric Applications as a story · 79 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Why You Need to Learn JavaScript as a story · 52 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted A Month With Scala as a story · 51 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Why are you Still Making Crap? Open Source to the Rescue as a story · 28 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted It's Not A Redesign If You Don't Cut Features as a story · 21 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted A Review of the Lean Startup Book as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Crowdsourcing Your Way to Average as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Lean Hiring in a Lean Startup as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted The Freeconomics of Dropbox - Projecting Freemium as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted The Freeconomics of Dropbox - Projecting Freemium as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Dropbox Could Be a Goldmine - The Freeconomics of Dropbox as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Practical Advice for Computer Science Students as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted You Don't Know JavaScript as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Apple’s Commoditization of Cloud Storage, Should Dropbox Worry? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Giving Developers Feedback, Without Pissing Them Off as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Lean Design For The Lean Startup (Minimum Viable Design) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted A Startup's Guide to Application Scaling as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted The Minimum Viable Product Dissected as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Fast Zipping in Amazon S3 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted AdWords Is Not A Marketing Strategy as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted 2 Years of Programming in 4 months as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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