Ask HN: How did you get introduced to HN?

I had this cool new tech around 2011(?), a sony dash.

It was like a tablet before tablets were a big thing, and a web browser and alarm clock and photo frame - that had some apps and a small app store kind of thing.

Whoever made the hacker news app that was supported on the chumby / sony dash - I owe you so much.

I started reading about things I would never have. Started hearing excellent view points and facts and so many things. I read it on the dash almost every night till it got unplugged the last time and I found an HN app in the android thing for a tablet.

I was introduced by a coder in my previous role. He forwarded this link [1] to me to tell me that it is justified that he was taking time. I was pushing for him to complete 80% of the task so that we can push it in production, see the response and then complete it with testing. (I was heading growth at that time, and he was in product team.) I told him that the cases he was considering might not be encountered by 99% of users, so better launch something quickly, then we would know if we need to spend more time on it based on response. He gave me a timeline of four days, and I ended up doing it myself and making it live on a test branch in a day or so. Coming back, the argument did not go well, but I liked HN, and started reading it as a knowledge source.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14410661

You just reminded me that I came here through OneThingWell.

Does anyone here know if the author is all right? That site is/was lovely.

Reading about some random startup on Tech Crunch during the "new social local native app a week" craze. Found ycombinator. And clicked around and found HN.

My father. He found it via digg or his old work intranet/wiki where they shared all the good gossip most managers were either quietly in on or unaware of how juicy the old sybasedocs.workname.com had gotten, at least so he tells me.