<story><title>Andrew Warner&apos;s Mixergy Celebrates 1,000th interview</title><url>http://mixergy.com/1000interview</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AndrewWarner</author><text>One of the reasons Mixergy took off is the Hacker News community helped me.&lt;p&gt;I used to call up people who complained about my work on HN. I wasn&amp;#x27;t mad at them. I really wanted to get feedback, and I knew there were smart people on this site.&lt;p&gt;I got my guests from here too. Somewhere in the comment archive, you&amp;#x27;ll see Derek Sivers agreeing to do an interview because I responded to his HN comment about offering to help people in this community.&lt;p&gt;When I moved to Argentina and didn&amp;#x27;t know anyone, I organized a Hacker News meetup. I made more than startup&amp;#x2F;work friends. I met people like Chad DePue, whose family became close with me and my wife.&lt;p&gt;I know we talk about improving the comments on HN, and I&amp;#x27;m always for improvement, but there&amp;#x27;s a huge amount of value here right now. And there has been for years.&lt;p&gt;I know this could sound sappy, but thank you Hacker News.</text></comment>
<story><title>Andrew Warner&apos;s Mixergy Celebrates 1,000th interview</title><url>http://mixergy.com/1000interview</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jl</author><text>Congratulations to Andrew for all your wonderful interviews since 2008! Glad to be a part of the celebration. I meant to ask you during my interview: what have you found is a secret to getting people to open up and share their most interesting stories&amp;#x2F;insights?</text></comment>