This blog post of mine hit HN and led to Duolingo's CTO and co-founder offering me a job back in 2016: https://steveridout.com/2016/01/04/readlang-3-years-as-a-

This blog post of mine hit HN and led to Duolingo's CTO and co-founder offering me a job back in 2016: https://steveridout.com/2016/01/04/readlang-3-years-as-a-one-man-startup.html https://steveridout.com/2016/01/04/readlang-3-years-as-a-one... I joined them shortly after and a year later I sold Readlang to them. In 2021 Duolingo IPO'd and I'm now financially independent, which may not have happened if not for writing about it on my personal blog. (Oh, and I really ought to write another blog post about buying Readlang back from Duolingo last month!)