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Wildbit
Company blog · wildbit.com/blog · on HN as cnagelebusinesscareerdesign
Wildbit is the company blog at wildbit.com, writing about business, career and design. Since 2007, 32 different Hacker News readers have linked it 46 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite Wildbit's blog posts on its 4-day, 32-hour work week, the shutdown of its Newsberry product, and the Conveyor product idea, mostly as background for related discussions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
We’re the team behind Postmark, Beanstalk, DMARC Digests, and People-First Jobs. Wildbit is self-funded, profitable, and has been working remotely since 2000.
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/2017/10/19/4-day-work-week-update2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-01-06
What Hacker News says?
I think it's because 30 supposedly sounds/looks better than 32. 32 is 4x8 after all, so I imagine many "30h jobs" would turn out to be 32h. Example: https://wildbit.com/blog/2017/10/19/4-day-work-week-update (also found a job offer by this company on the board).
Comment linking /blog/2017/10/19/4-day-work-week-update
on “Show HN: 30 Hour Jobs – a job board for shorter work weeks”Submitted Why we shut down a product that was $75,000/year profitable as a story · 227 points
HN discussionHey everyone, Chris Nagele here from Wildbit. For some background, I wrote about our reasons for moving to a private office plan. In short, it's more than putting on some headphones. http://wildbit.com/blog/2015/03/06/wildbit-hq-ending-the-ope... And a tour of the office itself: http://wildbit.com/blog/2015/08/05/wildbit-office-tour
Comment linking /blog/2015/08/05/wildbit-office-tour
on “Open offices are bad for us”Submitted Ending the open office epidemic as a story · 208 points
HN discussionBecause non-technical staff are expected to access, interact, and keep up to date with developer workflow using git now. Seems like abstracting some of the higher-order functionality away while adding project management amenities and making git friendly for those people might be an opportunity. For instance, I'm thinking of products like Conveyor: https://wildbit.com/blog/2017/02/14/our-next-product-conveyo...
Comment linking /blog/2017/02/14/our-next-product-conveyor
on “How and why we teach non-engineers to use GitHub at Thread”Submitted Postmark has been acquired by ActiveCampaign as a story · 183 points
HN discussionWe've been doing 4-day/32-hour weeks at Wildbit for over a year now, and it's been great. We're a remote-first team of just under 30 people spread across quite a few time zones. It's a mental hurdle at first, but the company has continued to grow and be as productive as we were before. We're all just much more mindful of how we each spend our time these days. We also strive to reduce meetings and lean more on asynch…
Comment linking /blog/2017/10/19/4-day-work-week-update
on “What I Learned from Working 32 Hours a Week”Submitted A gentlemen's agreement as a story · 110 points
HN discussionPostmark, for sure. Run by a small dev shop called Wildbit that is bootstrapped, treats their employees fairly, and grows in small sustainable ways. https://postmarkapp.com/ https://wildbit.com/
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on “Mailgun doesn't validate the email headers of email sent through their system”Submitted Getting Postmark’s Lighthouse Performance Score to 100 as a story · 66 points
HN discussionTheir team photos look so happy that they seem about to explode in a sparkling cloud of rainbows and unicorns. http://wildbit.com/
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on “Show HN: A Bot to Deploy to AWS, Digital Ocean Etc.”Submitted DeployBot gets $1M investment as a story · 40 points
HN discussionIt’s Artem from Wildbit ( http://wildbit.com ). We’ve been using Clojure in production since 2012. http://dmarc.postmarkapp.com/ — free DMARC weekly digests and API. Clojure back-end + Javascript front-end. http://dploy.io — a Ruby on Rails app featuring internal Clojure RPC built on top of clj-jgit and subversion-clj libraries (both currently supported by Wildbit). The usage of Clojure at Beanstalk ( http://beansta…
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on “Ask HN: Who's using Clojure in production?”Submitted Why we shut down Newsberry Part 2: Why we didn’t sell as a story · 31 points
HN discussionFollow up post to questions about shutting down our $75k/year profitable product: http://wildbit.com/blog/2012/01/26/why-we-shut-down-a-produc...
Comment linking /blog/2012/01/26/why-we-shut-down-a-product-that-was-75000year-profitable/
on “Why we shut down Newsberry Part 2: Why we didn’t sell ”Submitted Refactoring 4+ years of CSS development into Sass as a story · 27 points
HN discussionAgree. We'll make some updates to explain it better. Our hope was that the more simplistic overview would be enough. For now, you can read the blog post about it: http://wildbit.com/blog/2013/09/17/dploy-io-our-third-produc... It's heavily based on Beanstalk deployments, so you can also read about how it works here: http://beanstalkapp.com/features/deployments
Comment linking /blog/2013/09/17/dploy-io-our-third-product/
on “Dploy.io - Ship code from GitHub, Bitbucket or SVN/Git repo”Submitted Responsive design for email – the largest mobile audience as a story · 25 points
HN discussionFollow up post to http://wildbit.com/blog/2012/01/26/why-we-shut-down-a-produc... , where a lot of people wondered why we "didn't just sell the damn thing".
Comment linking /blog/2012/01/26/why-we-shut-down-a-product-that-was-75000year-profitable/
on “Why we shut down a profitable business part 2: Why we didn't sell”Submitted Good / Bad Product Manager as a story · 22 points
HN discussionI like to keep a list of my accounts on the web and OpenID would automate this task for me, if it weren't for the fact that most websites where I maintain an account do not support OpenID or do not make full use of OpenD (i.e. they link an OpenID URL to a traditional email/username and password based account account). As most websites that do support it — that I use — require a traditional email/username and passwor…
Comment linking /blog/2009/05/26/what-happened-to-openid-support-in-beanstalk/
on “Poll: What do you think of OpenID?”Submitted Wildbit launches dploy.io: Ship code from GitHub, Bitbucket, anywhere as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Streamlining our email newsletters with MailMason as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Basecamp as a bug-feature tracking system as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted What makes a good or bad designer, developer, sys admin… as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating a product vision and roadmap for Postmark as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Our week off from Slack as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Accessible Palette: stop using HSL for color systems as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Announcing location-agnostic pay as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Finding a New Home for Conveyor as a story · 3 points
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