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Adii Pienaar

Personal blog · adii.mestartupscareer

Adii Pienaar's personal blog at adii.me covers startups and career. Since 2011, 52 different Hacker News readers have linked it 95 times, most often “Online Payments Suck”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-24, and you can follow it by feed.

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95mentions?
52HN people?
2011–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 31 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Adii Pienaar's blog for posts on startup life as a young father and on online payments. It is also cited as an example of a successful entrepreneur who blogs.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Entrepreneur & 3X Founder (Cogsy, Conversio and WooCommerce). Author of "Life Profitability: The New Measure of Entrepreneurial Success". Ex-Rockstar.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Online Payments Suck
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-08-18
  2. Broken idols and ideals
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-05-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. maguay · 2013-11-04
    Adii Pienaar of WooThemes — http://adii.me Collis Ta'eed of Envato — http://notes.envato.com/author/collis/ , http://inside.envato.com

    Comment linking /

    on “Few successful entrepreneurs blog”
  2. adii · 2011-08-11

    Submitted Avoid Customer Feedback Before Version 1.0 as a story · 62 points

    HN discussion
  3. web007 · 2014-05-21
    "Does PG really want a bunch of code obsessed, single minded founders with no hobbies or life outside of their startup?" Yes. He wants his startups to work, eat, exercise and sleep. http://adii.me/broken-idols/

    Comment linking /broken-idols/

    on “How I Feel as Young Father Involved in Early-stage Startup”
  4. adii · 2012-01-30

    Submitted Bootstrapping: Revenues & Momentum is Everything as a story · 57 points

    HN discussion
  5. praxeologist · 2011-12-22Recommends
    Read my other link and also this blog post: http://adii.me/2011/08/online-payments-suck/

    Comment linking /2011/08/online-payments-suck/

    on “InspirePay Launches”
  6. adii · 2013-10-08

    Submitted How I Made $4000 Selling A Product I Didn't Have as a story · 54 points

    HN discussion
  7. adii · 2012-08-31

    Submitted Startups Shouldn't Follow Trends as a story · 27 points

    HN discussion
  8. adii · 2011-05-16

    Submitted Angel Fears: Why I probably won't invest... as a story · 27 points

    HN discussion
  9. adii · 2012-02-13

    Submitted Bootstrapping: Spend money on unnecessary things as a story · 19 points

    HN discussion
  10. adii · 2011-05-24

    Submitted 5 Mistakes I made with my 2nd (failed) startup as a story · 19 points

    HN discussion
  11. adii · 2011-12-01

    Submitted What Path (V2) Should’ve Been as a story · 18 points

    HN discussion
  12. adii · 2012-02-06

    Submitted Bootstrapping: Launch Using Your Personal Profile as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  13. adii · 2011-02-15

    Submitted B2B-esque: The "safest" revenue models are B2B-based as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  14. adii · 2012-12-10

    Submitted Failure Has Limited Value as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  15. adii · 2011-06-21

    Submitted Your Startup Shouldn't Kill You as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  16. adii · 2011-04-13

    Submitted The Challenges of being the "Business Guy" in an Online Startup as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  17. adii · 2012-02-16

    Submitted The Mothership is broken. And you can’t fix it. as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  18. ryangilbert · 2012-10-01

    Submitted Make Your Customers Pay as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  19. joshuacc · 2011-06-13

    Submitted WordPress + SaaS as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  20. adii · 2012-05-07

    Submitted Funding "No-Idea" Founders Is Bullshit as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  21. adii · 2012-04-12

    Submitted V1 Release, 24 Hours & 7000+ Users as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  22. bdb · 2013-05-02

    Submitted Why do we worry about scalability on Day 1? as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  23. adii · 2012-02-20

    Submitted Bootstrapping: The Hacker Way as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  24. joshuacc · 2011-08-09

    Submitted Most Customers Don’t Give 2nd Chances as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  25. villauriz · 2012-10-22

    Submitted We’ve Broken This Startup Thing as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  26. adii · 2011-08-01

    Submitted Executing an idea, means monetizing that idea as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  27. ksred · 2012-12-06

    Submitted Svbtle Exclusivity as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  28. jwallaceparker · 2012-11-07

    Submitted Passion Will Make You Work More as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  29. LeonW · 2012-07-13

    Submitted Stop Giving Advice as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  30. charlieirish · 2015-04-23

    Submitted The Three Small Changes That Created 81% More Active Users as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion

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