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I was starting a business in 2011, and a friend sent me a link to a Hacker News discussion on some self-employment issue I had been thinking about.

I was deeply hooked.

I now run a web business: https://lsathacks.com

Not a programmer, though I learned enough scripting to generate some of the html on the site, and to know what sort of things I can and can't ask a programmer to do.

Hacker news is an incredible resource for web entrepreneurship. I learned an incredible amount about running a business here, and was able to apply it successfully to what I was building.

There are also wonderful discussions on a variety of interesting topics here. I scan the front page every day and am able to pick out things relevant to my work, or that seem interesting.

Further, when I want to research a technical topic, I'll use the search function here. I've found great discussion of SASS tools and of books.




Search function? Do you mean searching through Google with a filter for this site only?


There's a search at the bottom of the page.


Site is down :)


Hmm, are you sure it's not you? It's up for me. I doubt there was enough of a hacker news effect to bring it down. I was working on it when you posted too.




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