Of course, but HN does tend to have a lot more patience for scrappy startups that scrappy lone, non-commercial devs from what I can observe.
The question was rhetorical, I know that this place is frequented by quite a lot of people who wish to be part of the next YC batch, so they see themselves in the shoes of the startup, rather than the solo dev.
Still, I don't think it should be this way.
