Startup
520 postsPostmortems, revenue reports and build-in-public notes from founders
All startup →Stories
2,570 first-person posts from the archive — what it is like to start something, leave a job, ship a project or take a service down. Each category is ranked the same way as the rest of the site.
Careers
306 postsQuitting, getting fired, managing, hiring — first-person career notes
All careers →Build logs
1,629 postsI built / I shipped posts: side projects, tools and prototypes
All build logs →Incidents
115 postsOutage and data-loss postmortems written by the people involved
All incidents →Most argued about
- 1Build logsI made a robot to cut my hair with scissors4,573 pts
- 2Build logsI made an open-source laptop from scratch3,237 pts
- 3CareersWhy I Quit Google to Work for Myself2,348 pts
- 4Build logsI may have created a new type of puzzle2,103 pts
- 5CareersI resigned from Twitter1,822 pts
- 6Build logsI wrote a children's book / illustrated guide to Apache Kafka1,797 pts
- 7StartupI Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors1,762 pts
- 8Build logsI 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid at Giza1,752 pts
- 9CareersI quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time1,644 pts
- 10Build logsI made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels1,589 pts
- 11CareersWhy I Quit Being So Accommodating (1922)1,568 pts
- 12Build logsI've built my first successful side project, and I hate it1,540 pts