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Paul Stamatiou
Personal blog · paulstamatiou.com · on HN as PStamatioustartupsdesignprogramming
Paul Stamatiou's personal blog at paulstamatiou.com covers startups, design and programming. Since 2007, 143 different Hacker News readers have linked it 385 times, most often “Crash Course: Design for Startups”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Often recommended · 20 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Paul Stamatiou's blog for its photo galleries, design and site-building posts, and EC2 and Jekyll tutorials. Commenters call his posts great and excellent and recommend them.
- Recommended for · 20 comments
- Called excellent, great and marvelous; photo galleries, layout and design praised, and tutorials recommended.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A blog about technology, design and startups from a designer who codes.
Most-linked posts?
- Crash Course: Design for Startups7 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2011-04-08
- Getting Started with Security Keys7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2019-10-21
- Crypto Design Challenges6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-11-25
- Craft6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-11-14
- Browse No More5 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2025-03-13
- Atlanta to San Francisco: What I Learned Moving Cross-Country4 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2010-05-25
- The 12.9-inch iPad Pro took me by surprise and replaced my laptop4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-06-12
- /4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-08-21
- /storage-for-photographers/4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-01-15
- /3 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2008-03-13
What Hacker News says?
Could not agree more. I wrote in detail about some of these issues last week https://paulstamatiou.com/browse-no-more
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on “Claude can now search the web”Submitted Crash Course: Design for Startups as a story · 523 points
HN discussion+1, love my XDR for coding and designing: https://paulstamatiou.com/stuff-i-use/
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on “Time to Upgrade Your Monitor”Submitted Getting Started with Security Keys as a story · 346 points
HN discussionLikewise I've recently gotten back into RSS - thanks to this new breed of RSS readers (feedbin and others) that also let you subscribe to email newsletters. So handy to get that clutter out of my inbox. Wrote a bit about this recently: https://paulstamatiou.com/hello-rss/
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on “I Still Use RSS”Submitted Building a Lightroom PC as a story · 272 points
HN discussionI was curious about the same thing and it turns out he does indeed have a post about how he built his blog right here: https://paulstamatiou.com/about-this-website/
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on “Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?”Submitted Storage for Photographers as a story · 263 points
HN discussionhttps://paulstamatiou.com/ Been running this site for about 15 years now and while I don't post often it's usually long-form detailed articles on a broad range of hardware/software/tech/design topics that take me a few months of spare time: Getting started with security keys (15k words) https://paulstamatiou.com/getting-started-with-security-keys... Building a Lightroom PC (30k words) https://paulstamatiou.com/build…
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on “Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?”Submitted Getting started with Raspberry Pi – Building a Digital Photo Frame as a story · 206 points
HN discussionThis is great! Like tileabl.es and some other website I'm forgetting at the moment. Regarding design for your next proj/startup: I wrote this "crash course" post a while ago: http://paulstamatiou.com/startup-web-design-ux-crash-course
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on “Subtle Patterns: Free textures for your next web project”Submitted Storage for Photographers, Part 2 as a story · 205 points
HN discussionThe moment I saw the domain name I remembered having visited it more than once after reading the initial piece "Simplify". I visited that particular post many times, but also really, really enjoyed your photos and the way you presented them. Was nice to revisit your site after quite some hiatus again. And thanks again for "Simplify". Edit: Just the speed your image galleries load and the way you scroll trigger the v…
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Startup Idea: User Retention as a Service as a story · 203 points
HN discussionhttps://paulstamatiou.com/ Been around for almost 17 years now. Jekyll-based site, all custom designed myself, hosted on Netlify with media on S3/Cloudfront. One section in particular I'm fond of is my set of "stuff i use" pages, where the sections have icons I custom designed: https://paulstamatiou.com/stuff-i-use/
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Developing a responsive, Retina-friendly site (Part 1) as a story · 191 points
HN discussionHere's my personal website: https://matall.in I'm a fan of personal sites, too. Some of the ones that I like most, in no particular order: https://macwright.org https://zachholman.com https://warpspire.com https://paulstamatiou.com http://francisco.dance https://craigmod.com
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on “Building a Kickass Portfolio”Submitted Simplify as a story · 157 points
HN discussionyou've probably seen this already, but I'm a big fan of Stammy: http://paulstamatiou.com/ and the the NY times multimedia presentations: http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/12/30/year-in-inter...
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on “Show HN: Exposé – a static site generator for photos and videos”Submitted The Coding Zone as a story · 157 points
HN discussionGreat post -- As a newly diehard Android user, I will agree that while Android is definitely getting some amazing and beautiful apps, it's nothing like on the App Store. If you spend the time to design a beautiful app, there is a larger opportunity for you to unseat very popular Android apps. Android users crave great design too. Start building. http://paulstamatiou.com/android-is-better
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on “Android is for startups”Submitted Startup Fundraising is a Time Sink as a story · 156 points
HN discussionI'm curious whether you can actually import RAW photos into this iPad. According to [1], importing huge (42 Megapixel) RAW files into the last gen iPad Pro was pretty much unusable. I can definitely see myself making this my travel laptop, replacing my 2013 Macbook Air if I could connect my camera, import all of my photos for the day, maybe do some light editing and then export them to an external hard drive. [1] ht…
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on “iPad Pro”Submitted How To: Hosting with Amazon S3, CloudFront and Route 53 as a story · 154 points
HN discussionhttps://c82.net/ a designers website with impressive visualizations and artwork https://fabiensanglard.net/ a personal website with interesting side projects and lots of technical details https://paulstamatiou.com/ photography, technology and design with in-depth articles and detailed travel photosets https://www.arun.is/ a visually-rich blog that dives deep into how design and technology shape our lives https://cie…
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on “Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?”Submitted The Startup Diet: How I Lost 35 Pounds While Working Overtime as a story · 135 points
HN discussionhttps://c82.net/ https://fabiensanglard.net/ https://paulstamatiou.com/ https://www.arun.is/ https://ciechanow.ski/ https://simone.computer/ https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/
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on “Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?”Submitted iPad 2: Thoughts from a first time tablet user as a story · 124 points
HN discussionSee: https://paulstamatiou.com/review-att-3g-microcell "After giving the MicroCell some power and ethernet, it will start blinking the 3G and GPS LEDs. Wait, what.. GPS? Yep. To limit the MicroCell from working outside of test markets (or out of the country too), it must get a GPS lock on your location. AT&T suggests this should take no longer than 90 minutes. It took me about 5 hours." And this was the fundamental…
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on “SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain people”Submitted Developing a responsive, Retina-friendly site (Part 2) as a story · 121 points
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