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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,552 posts.
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Losing 80% of mobile users is normal
Exclusive data on retention curves for mobile apps In a recent essay covering the Next Feature Fallacy , I explained why shipping “just one more feature” doesn’t fix your product. The root cause is that the average app has pretty bad retention metrics . Today, I’m excited to share some real numbers on mobile…
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True product-market fit is a minimum viable company
Hi, I’m Ann. I was one of the first investors in Lyft, Refinery29, and Xamarin. I have been on the Midas List for the past 3 years and was…
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Paul Buchheit: Ideas vs Judgment and Execution: Climbing the Mountain
How much is an idea worth? Many normal people assume that ideas are valuable, and that if only they could think of one, they might be able t...
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I’ve Made $216,688 From Products This Year
Hey, would you look at the time? It’s getting late. Just two months until the deeply introspective blog posts start comin’ hot & heavy. It’s still on
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Shopify: A StarCraft Inspired Business Strategy
How CEO Tobi Lütke Applied StarCraft Gaming Strategies & Concepts To Build Shopify
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The Economics of a Kickstarter Project
or How Much I Didn’t Make
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How I doubled the price of my software product and sold ten times as many copies
A bootstrapped developer doubled his software price from $9.99 to $19.99 and saw sales increase tenfold — proving that customers still equate cost with quality.
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Founding is a snowball
It can happen to anyone.
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My Notes on the Lean Startup
Kevin Lin builds tools for humans and agents.
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No One Wins In Business Plan Competitions
Last week one of the schools I teach at invited me to judge a business plan contest. I suggested that they first might want to read my post on why business plans are a poor planning and execution t…
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Sales results from getting 3M views on YouTube
How getting your subscription box covered on a popular YouTube channel is not necessarily a shortcut to riches.
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Mint’s Original Marketing Plan (circa 2007)
by Paul Hontz
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Take my app ideas
I would rather give away my favorite ideas than to let them go to waste. Please do something with them.
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My journey into the Berlin startup scene
Six years as Heroku’s CTO was the greatest professional experience of my life. But what’s next?
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