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wentin’s newsletter is a personal blog at build.typogram.co about startups and programming. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Don’t Sell Your Indie Business to Digital Ocean”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-23, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link wentin's newsletter for its posts on Digital Ocean buying indie developer blogs such as CSS-Tricks, and on the collapse of the Adobe and Figma merger. The comments do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Hi, I am wentin. I am building apps in public and sharing progress weekly in this newsletter.
Most-linked posts?
- Don’t Sell Your Indie Business to Digital Ocean3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-02-22
What Hacker News says?
This is not the first time digital ocean did something like this. And unlike some other commenter here saying they only did it because CSS tutorials don't give them ROI, extra information here is that they also did it with javascript tutorials, like scotch.io, so I am leaning towards to that DO just do poorly with their investment regardless. I wrote more about their track record in buying indie dev blog and then ki…
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on “Where I'm at on the whole CSS-Tricks thing”Submitted On Adobe acquiring Figma as a story · 150 points
HN discussionI’m an ex-Adobe employee who worked on Adobe XD, which is basically Adobe's answer to Figma. when Adobe decided to buy Figma, my first reaction was pretty much "Wait, what?" I wrote down my initial thoughts about it[^1], it felt like a losing situation all around - for Adobe, Figma, and all the designers out there. The only folks who really seemed to win were Figma's investors. Now, let's talk how bad the breakup de…
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on “Figma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed merger”Submitted Don’t Sell Your Indie Business to Digital Ocean as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOriginal article link: https://build.typogram.co/p/dont-sell-your-indie-business-to I got furious following this series of blog buyout by Digital Ocean and seeing them destroy it afterwards. I want to write down a record what they have done over the years and make them accountable for their unethical business practice even after they correct some of the things I pointed out directly. I am curious what others here th…
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on “Discussion: don’t Sell Your Indie Business to Digital Ocean”Submitted Four Startup Lessons Through Watercolor as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don’t Sell Your Indie Business to Digital Ocean as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted GitHub Copilot Is Getting Sued as a story · 1 points
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