Hacker News: stephenson

New comment by stephenson in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

stephenson — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 08:03:44 +0000

What marketing staff?

New comment by stephenson in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

stephenson — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 07:54:37 +0000

The 75% of the team is 3 out of 4 developers. There are no marketing.

Left are the three owners of tailwind, one engineer and one ops+customer service + partner sails person.

New comment by stephenson in "Optimizing your career for happiness"

stephenson — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:49:53 +0000

I think it partly has to do with what level of security is around you, I don't live in a place (Denmark) where I have to solve that many other people's basic needs so I can optimize further up in the pyramid of needs.

New comment by stephenson in "Optimizing your career for happiness"

stephenson — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 11:14:27 +0000

I think this is the most sad comment I have read on HN for years. Can I ask where in the world you live?

New comment by stephenson in "GPTBot – OpenAI’s Web Crawler"

stephenson — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 05:53:24 +0000

It's funny that you need to prove you are a human to access this page…

New comment by stephenson in "Instagram can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser"

stephenson — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 17:57:22 +0000

This is why I have pi-hole on my network (https://github.com/pi-hole)

New comment by stephenson in "Show HN: Bucket – Simple Feature Analytics"

stephenson — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 14:08:02 +0000

As a product manager this hits a painpoint I have had for a long time with current tracking solutions!

New comment by stephenson in "Electron 7.0"

stephenson — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 19:28:27 +0000

I think congrats are in order, he did not get distracted with a minor part of the market but is focused on delivering value to the bigger market. He can always add more clients later.

Waves of Motivation

stephenson — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 18:27:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.stephenson.dk/waves-of-motivation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21118258

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by stephenson in "Apple suspends Siri response grading in response to privacy concerns"

stephenson — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 08:20:54 +0000

I completely agree, so much that I even started a company within the space and wrote a blog post the other week on how we need to reset our moral compass around data and tech: https://www.legalmonster.com/blog/it-s-time-to-reset-our-mor...

It’s time to reset our moral compass, what Superhuman thought me about privacy

stephenson — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 14:02:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.legalmonster.com/blog/it-s-time-to-reset-our-moral-compass/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20525411

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by stephenson in "Dependabot is joining GitHub"

stephenson — Thu, 23 May 2019 13:51:21 +0000

That makes so much sense! A more secure open source world, a better product for our close projects and two amazing tools merging. Love it!

Dependabot, you did well, build a fantastic tool, now join the rocketship and kick ass!

New comment by stephenson in "Internet Privacy: Federal Authority Could Enhance Consumer Protection [pdf]"

stephenson — Sat, 16 Feb 2019 14:07:28 +0000

Can you elaborate?

New comment by stephenson in "Internet Privacy: Federal Authority Could Enhance Consumer Protection [pdf]"

stephenson — Sat, 16 Feb 2019 11:14:06 +0000

There are positive and negative impacts of GDPR. Yes, poorly implemented consent is annoying, but forcing companies to use time and energy on privacy is super positive.

I have spent the last nine months in a few different co-working spaces here in Denmark, and all startups there have informed and essential conversations about handling users data. Just a few years ago that would never have been a topic. For me that's a very positive change.

Slacking on Slack – Where Work Doesn't Happen

stephenson — Fri, 28 Dec 2018 20:59:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.stephenson.dk/slacking-on-slack/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18779362

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

How to do business online in Mexico

stephenson — Sat, 10 Nov 2018 14:26:56 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@dkjess/how-to-do-business-online-in-mexico-8e7bea5ea4d1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18421424

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Choosing Ruby on Rails is not a technical decision

stephenson — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 20:36:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.stephenson.dk/choosing-ruby-on-rails-is-not-a-technical-decision/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17880503

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Product Management Jobs in Copenhagen, Denmark

stephenson — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:16:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.stephenson.dk/product-management-jobs-in-copenhagen/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17714559

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by stephenson in "Ask HN: What's one book that changed your life?"

stephenson — Sun, 27 May 2018 19:26:59 +0000

Getting Real by 37Signals - https://basecamp.com/books/getting-real

Got me started building my first business.

New comment by stephenson in "Y Combinator CEO: “The True Test of Product-Market Fit Is 'Drowning in Demand'”"

stephenson — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 08:14:49 +0000

It depends on what kind of company you want to build.

Yes if your goal is to build a Dropbox, an Instagram etc then you don't have "product-market fit" before you have to stay up all night weeks in a row to keep your service alive.

But sometimes it makes more sense (and joy) enjoy building stuff where the product-market fit and growth curve is a lot slower, read Basecamp's post about linear growth companies: https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-world-needs-more-modest-linea...

Background: I have build a VC backed company that ended up on a linear growth curve and enjoyed it a lot, today the company is profitable and proud. Today I am VP Growth of a heavily VC backed company that is trying to hit product-market fit.