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Yury Molodtsov

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Yury Molodtsov's personal blog at molodtsov.me covers startups, business and culture. Since 2020, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “How to Start Your Blog in 2023”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.

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23mentions?
8HN people?
2020–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2023

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this post for its chart on how to start a blog in 2023. One commenter cites it while describing how a static site generator setup distracted them from 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.

Essays by Yury Molodtsov on startup communications, technology, software, productivity, media, and internet culture.

Most-linked posts?

  1. How to Start Your Blog in 2023
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-20

What Hacker News says?

  1. I'm reminded of the chart from this blog post: https://molodtsov.me/2023/02/how-to-start-your-blog-in-2023/ As I fell into the SSG pit I found I mostly wrote about and fooled around with the SSG itself, instead of all the things I originally planned on writing about and doing. So I threw away the SSG and installed Wordpress and stopped caring. It's been liberating. If the goal is to tinker and write about the tinker…

    Comment linking /2023/02/how-to-start-your-blog-in-2023/

    on “Minimum Viable Blog”
  2. Submitted WordPress Doesn't Matter for the Future of Web as a story · 85 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Retro Tech Became the New Luxury as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Why Micropayments Don’t Work and People Hate Paywalls as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted The Broken Promises of Substack as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Web Apps Are Better Than No Apps as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Why Privacy Is Overrated as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Crypto Preachers vs. Crypto Skeptics as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted The Myths of Venture Capital as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted How to Start Your Blog in 2023 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted A Comparative Review of iOS Browsers as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted We Need a New Product Hunt as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted The AI Price Hike as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted I Can't Stop Using Dia Browser as a story · 1 points

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  15. Submitted Communicating with Numbers as a story · 1 points

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  16. Submitted Basecamp Is a Contrarian Marketing Operation as a story · 1 points

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  17. Submitted Sorry, but Google Meet Is Better Than Zoom as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Why Algorithmic Feeds Can Be Good as a story · 1 points

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  19. Submitted Some Controversial Things I Believe as a story · 1 points

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  20. Submitted How Would Anti-Instagram Look Like? as a story · 1 points

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  21. Submitted Why Apple Has to Allow Sideloading as a story · 1 points

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  22. Submitted Browsers Are Outdated and Somebody Has to Do Something as a story · 1 points

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  23. Submitted Superhuman and Premium Software as a story · 1 points

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