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StarlinkService

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Who uses, recommends or left Starlink, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Ben Thompson
Founder and author of Stratechery, a subscription newsletter and podcast network analysing the business and strategy of technology.
liked

I’m pumped about Starlink and will seek out United

A thread complaining that United had dropped inflight Panasonic internet on widebodies ahead of a Starlink rollout.

2026-05-15·x.com ↗

David Heinemeier Hansson
Creator of Ruby on Rails, Hotwire, Kamal and Omarchy; co-owner and CTO of 37signals.
liked

If you're stuck on a rock in the middle of nowhere, and you somehow haven't discovered the glory of Starlink, maybe just stick to your old full-disk backup ways.

Aside in his post on living without full-system backups.

2025-11-24·world.hey.com ↗

Elon Musk
Chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of X; founder of xAI and The Boring Company.
recommendedtheir own

Watch your favorite games live on @Starlink

2026-09-18·x.com ↗

Pieter Levels
Dutch indie maker and solo founder of Nomads.com, Remote OK and Photo AI; writes about building bootstrapped products at levels.io.
recommended

Also @mick__net used it when his MEO (or Vodafone? Or NOS) failed for weeks in Lisbon Get @starlink Only €35/mo!

2026-09-14·x.com ↗

Pieter Levels
Dutch indie maker and solo founder of Nomads.com, Remote OK and Photo AI; writes about building bootstrapped products at levels.io.
recommended

starlink with local fiber backup

A list of what he would buy again after a year of owning a house and trying a lot of products.

2026-07-23·levels.io ↗

Pieter Levels
Dutch indie maker and solo founder of Nomads.com, Remote OK and Photo AI; writes about building bootstrapped products at levels.io.
uses

I've never had so LITTLE issues with internet as since I had Starlink, it's never been down, it always just works and customer support is via chat and works really well

2026-09-24·x.com ↗

Carlos Alexandro Becker
Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub and writes at carlosbecker.com.
uses

I also have a backup link with Starlink.

His /uses page, a running list of the hardware and software he works with; its own changelog gives 2025-04-03 as the latest edit.

2025-04-03·carlosbecker.com ↗

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