Seriously though, this is a super common thing that happens on HN all the time. This community is actively hostile to people who aren't winners and talk about why they should have won if only they were "given a chance" or did something differently. Pretty typical recipe for the bottom of the page.
I'll note that I didn't vote either way on your comment so as to not bias it. Though simply posting my comment might actually sway people to vote it up - there is also a very strong contrarian trend on HN as well.
Why? Screw the downvotes, thanks for writing that.
It beats the crap out of all those so called 'success stories' that if you look at them closely merely amount to a half-assed hobby project that accidentally made some money.
FWIW: My partner Michael in 1999 suggested that besides live content we should find a way to easily host videos. I nixed the idea.
For an encore, a couple of years later when confronted with gamers using our service to live-stream their games I wrote a bot to block them.
Youtube and Twitch happened anyway :)
