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Party on, Offer HN, Party on

Well, a very cool trend is happening at Hacker News - people are posting "Offer HN" threads offering advice and help. The first one seems to be "Will Work for Karma" by todayiamme, which kicked the whole thing off. My favorite is "Tax Help for Startup Entrepreneurs" because there's a lot of insight and analysis just in the thread itself. I like learning about law, but it's damn expensive to learn about either in time or money. That said, learning law can save you a lot of money when you write a contract correctly or when you have a company buyback shares instead of purchasing them yourself when buying a partner in a two person partnership out.

After a bunch of "Offer HN" threads started kicking up, there were two discussion topics, both by guys I respect. "Please stop offering your services" and "Please keep offering your services" by Swombat and Jacques. There seems to be a few themes going on:

1. Some people think this is really cool and nice of people. 2. Some people are skeptical of the intentions of people doing this. 3. Some people don't want to see HN get bogged down/clogged up by this.

Let's cover those in reverse order.

First, if it gets out of control and you want to see news without offers, Paul Graham implemented http://news.ycombinator.com/offerless - no offers there. So that solves that problem.

Hey! Welcome new visitors!

So I log into my email and - 55+ new comments.

Okay, so, howdy. A best-of page is here - it's also got lots of contact details on how to reach me.

I'm starting a free newsletter soon - GetSomeVictory. There's going to be all kinds of good stuff in it. More details coming shortly.

I was going to log online about 10 hours ago when I woke up, but I said nah and spent the day cleaning and organizing stuff. I'm kind of kicking myself now - I wish I was able to respond to all these great comments in real time!

Anyways, howdy, welcome, and I hope you stick around. It looks like we've gotten 15,000+ new visitors today. I hope you find the site valuable. Please feel free to comment or shoot me an email if I can be of service. Welcome.

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