Nev Blog
nevblog.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2008
Nev writes about online business, growth experiments, e-commerce, and startup ideas, plus some personal experiments such as living homeless for a few days.
What HN saysHN links it for the homeless experiment and other stunts and tips. One commenter found the later content drifted toward courses and get-rich schemes.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Homeless Experiment4 people · 107 points · first shared 2010 · 50 comments on HN
- 2How to optimize your E-Commerce website2 people · 1 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 3How To Crash A Party1 people · 180 points · first shared 2012 · 61 comments on HN
- 4Bottled water experiment1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 5Illegal Business Idea of the Day1 people · 2 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 6Where Growth Is Found: The Magical Sugar Packet1 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · 1 comments on HN
- 7How to validate a taco stand1 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · 1 comments on HN
- 8The least-scammy affiliate ad I've ever seen1 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 9The Instagram Experiment and Results1 people · 1 points · first shared 2020 · 1 comments on HN
- 10How I lost weight by accident1 people · 1 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 11The Homeless Experiment1 people · 1 points · first shared 2013 · 1 comments on HN
- 12Interview with good info about validating a business BEFORE building1 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · 1 comments on HN
- 13Motivations the seinfeld calendar1 people · first shared 2011
- 14Homeless%20Experiment1 people · first shared 2009
- 15People just copied this and it worked1 people · first shared 2012
What HN people wrote when they linked it
swalberg · 2012-08-30
No, I agree. I had signed up to get the Mixpanel lifetime account. The next few months had stuff that didn't interest me, but were helpful enough that I would occasionally send them off to friends. Then it became online courses and get-rich-quick-but-not-so-quick-that-its-scammy types of things. I unsubscribed a little while ago.
One of the guys that does courses for AppSumo has a blog (http://www.nevblog.com/) and he often talks about churning out these courses. He's even got a course about building a course.
pmorici · 2013-02-28
For those that haven't been around long enough to remember this being posted here is an article by a guy who experimented with being homeless for a few days...
http://www.nevblog.com/category/homeless-experiment/
ssylee · 2012-10-11
livestyle · 2012-09-08
Check out this post ;) http://www.nevblog.com/people-just-copied-this-and-it-worked/
joejohnson · 2012-02-16
This is the guy: http://www.nevblog.com/images/prime-minister-of-malaysia.jpg
cot6mur3 · 2011-03-16
Thanks for naming the idea. For those wondering what the Seinfeld technique is but who are too lazy to Google at the moment: http://www.nevblog.com/motivations-the-seinfeld-calendar/.
JesseAldridge · 2009-07-22
This guy has some cool blog entries along those lines:
http://www.nevblog.com/labels/Homeless%20Experiment.html
jeromec · 2010-10-08
Here’s a problem: Many Americans can’t afford medical care.
Er, not sure where the author has been since the November 2008 election, but President Barack Obama made tackling this decades long problem a signature issue of his presidency, and actually got the problem addressed comprehensively. Sure, there is still work to do, but health care which makes up 1/3 of the economy was never going to be solved by programmers building web apps. And there are projects pushing technology forward in this area to increase efficiency.
Here’s another problem: Many Americans can’t afford a decent education, and many parts of our public school system suck.
There are technology projects working on improving this, both within the school system and in the tech arena.
Here’s another, even more pressing problem: Many Americans are homeless. Many can’t afford to eat.
I'm not sure how technology might solve homelessness, but there are actual real world answers like food banks and soup kitchens to address the hunger issue. The homeless experiment posted on Nev Blog shows how relatively easy it is for real homeless people (not those that panhandle, then jump into sports cars, or those with addictive habits to feed) to acquire food. (http://www.nevblog.com/homeless-experiment/)
The author reflects on some problems in America -- where even the poor are really not that poor by the standards of many other nations -- and seeks solutions in technology because technology is good at solving certain…