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1. 1MM
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   2020 · mlpowered.com

2. 2IW
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   2020 · leanpub.com

3. 3
   How to Start a Startup: The Book▲111

   Ultimate insider playbook based on the Y Combinator course

   2015

4. 4
   Y Combinator Startups▲159

   An Interactive Database

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5. 5
   The Macro▲269

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6. 6IW
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7. 7
   Work at a Startup - from Y Combinator▲179

   One common application for hundreds of top engineering jobs.

   2018

8. 8IW
   I wrote the book Building Mobile Apps at Scale▲357

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9. 9IM
   I'm writing a leanpub book about Common Lisp web programming▲107

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10. 10IW
    I wrote a book about Elasticsearch▲66

    2021 · elasticsearchbook.com

11. 11IM
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    2016 · mjavascript.com

12. 12
    Startup School Radio - E33: Formation and Fundraising▲106

    Y Combinator details the key basics of forming a company

    2016

13. 13BA
    Building an App Business, My Self Published Book▲13

    2013 · buildanappbusiness.com

14. 14IJ
    I just released my first self-published book▲63

    2015 · magetdd.com

15. 15ML
    My latest Y Combinator application▲5

    2011 · thypope.posterous.com

16. 16MB
    My Book on Evolutionary Algorithms, Written in Python Notebooks▲63

    2020 · shahinrostami.com

17. 17AL
    A little knowledge portal I've been building▲72

    2016 · tuvalie.com

18. 18IW
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    2021 · feld.to

19. 19IW
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    2020 · datacrayon.com

20. 20IW
    I Wrote a Book, JavaScript Application Design▲8

    2015 · manning.com

21. 21TI
    Today I Learned, tool I created to help me document things I learn▲15

    2020 · todayilearned.wiki

22. 22IM
    I made a list of 50 bootcamps and the stack they teach▲11

    2020 · bootcampindex.com

23. 23TY
    The Y Combinator Codex▲8

    2021 · phoe.github.io

24. 24IW
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