> Market success or user count are unfortunately not tightly correlated with technical excellence, as many of us have bitterly found out
It depends on how you define technical excellence. I would suggest a low memory usage might get you a thumbs up from HN, but isn't real technical excellence the ability to solve users problems?
Nope. Publishing an offer on Craigslist to help with homework via Skype is solving some users' problems, yet has nothing to do with "technical excellence".
It depends on how you define technical excellence. I would suggest a low memory usage might get you a thumbs up from HN, but isn't real technical excellence the ability to solve users problems?