#145: The Hacker News front page experience, 5-hour workdays and 4-day workweeks

Hi Bootstrappers,

Listen to this week's episode of Bootstrapped:
https://bootstrapped.fm/145-the-hacker-news-front-page-experience-5-hour-workdays-and-4-day-workweeks/

Ed reintroduces himself, Steve shares his experience of making it to the front page of Hacker News, and we discuss Quaderno's 5-hour work day and Wildbit's 4-day work week.

Until next time,

Steve McLeod
Bootstrapped.fm

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