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Yannick Oswald

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Yannick Oswald writes European VC Musings, a personal blog at yannickoswald.com about startups and business. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Are You a Product or Feature?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-16, and you can follow it by feed.

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5mentions?
4HN people?
2022–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2022

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked in a thread asking whether social audio is dead. The one comment discusses Clubhouse, live-audio features and Twitter Spaces, so the linked posts seem to be about social audio apps. The comment does not judge the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Are You a Product or Feature?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-06

What Hacker News says?

  1. I feel like Clubhouse fell bang in the "This is a feature, not a product" [1] hole and have simply not been able to get out of it, esp once other apps came up with their own live-audio functionality (and given how Twitter and Clubhouse were very closely entwined, the launch of Twitter Spaces and Twitter pushing it quite aggressively was probably the nail in the coffin). Honestly though, I always felt like live audio…

    Comment linking /post/the-hottest-question-in-venture-are-you-a-product-or-feature

    on “Is social audio already dead?”
  2. Submitted Focus on Winning, Not Competing as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Are you a nice to have or a must have? as a story · 2 points

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  4. Submitted The Death of the Keyboard as a story · 1 points

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  5. Submitted Are You a Product or Feature? as a story · 1 points

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