Hey PommeDeTerre, I think it's because of two things primarily:
1) Dan is beyond his years in terms of articulating his thoughts on startups and software development, and reminds some people of a young Jason Fried (co-founder of 37Signals, author of "Rework", etc.)
2) Dan is (much like Jason Fried) a bit of a contrarian. He has shipped almost two dozen apps/sites in the past couple years and is working night and day on growing his current startup, but he isn't dropping out of university. He also isn't out raising venture capital and trying to scale scale scale -- instead focusing on building a business that makes revenue and is profitable from (almost) day one. And lastly, because he is not chasing the "sexy", popular consumer app space -- instead focusing his efforts on the 'less glamorous' SaaS and B2B space.
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The combination of these factors make a lot of us in HN interested in where Dan's career is headed, and thus interested in reading his posts and watching him progress as a founder while still in school.
That's why so many Dan Shipper articles get submitted here, and why they always end up near the top. He is the real deal.
1) Dan is beyond his years in terms of articulating his thoughts on startups and software development, and reminds some people of a young Jason Fried (co-founder of 37Signals, author of "Rework", etc.)
2) Dan is (much like Jason Fried) a bit of a contrarian. He has shipped almost two dozen apps/sites in the past couple years and is working night and day on growing his current startup, but he isn't dropping out of university. He also isn't out raising venture capital and trying to scale scale scale -- instead focusing on building a business that makes revenue and is profitable from (almost) day one. And lastly, because he is not chasing the "sexy", popular consumer app space -- instead focusing his efforts on the 'less glamorous' SaaS and B2B space.
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The combination of these factors make a lot of us in HN interested in where Dan's career is headed, and thus interested in reading his posts and watching him progress as a founder while still in school.
That's why so many Dan Shipper articles get submitted here, and why they always end up near the top. He is the real deal.