Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment order> I drastically reduced the time developers spent repairing those failures, but there were no metrics that tracked developer time. For several jobs in a row, I've felt that helping others on a team is undervalued and under-recorded. I've been planning to implement the "assist" metric, similar to basketball, on my own team for a while. The idea would be something along the lines of everyone gets a set of assist points they must distribute to people who help them…
the same author has also published an interesting series of "annual review" blog posts summarising his progress trying to get different software businesses off the ground -- including being quite open about the finances. If you're interested in boostrapping a software business, and haven't seen them, they're well worth reading: https://mtlynch.io/tags/annual-review/ https://mtlynch.io/i-sold-tinypilot/
Author here! Cool to see this pop up on HN again. I was wondering why I was getting so many Twitter notifications all of a sudden. As a quick update, I continue to be happy with my decision to leave Google. I enjoy working for myself, even though I haven't made much money at it yet. I'm ending 2019 with ~$7k in revenue, which isn't much, but it's a bump from the $2.2k I made in 2018. My savings are…
Related: Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16483241 - Feb 2018 (751 comments)
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 3
- Total points
- 2357
- Total comments
- 1151
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-02-28 | Why I Quit Google to Work for MyselfFirst breakout · Best thread | mtlynch | 1767 | 751 |
| 2019-12-26 | I Quit Google to Work for Myself (2018) | luu | 200 | 168 |
| 2022-05-14 | I Quit Google (2018) | client4 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-01-21 | Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself (2018) | voiceblue | 3 | 1 |
| 2024-02-18 | I Quit Google to Work for Myself (2018) | samspenc | 4 | 0 |
| 2024-11-08 | I quit Google to work for myself (2018)Hall induction · Latest 20+ point return | alexzeitler | 381 | 231 |