[Cyberdog]

Has there ever been a product or service which has billed itself as "X for hackers" which has actually been successful?

[buckket]

I guess most of the time being "successful" is not the point.

[sliken]

How about hacker news?

[jtnegrotto]

Octopress (http://octopress.org/) seems like it's still fairly popular.

[cle]

linux?

[tdb7893]

was it actually billed as that when it was created?

[icebraining]

Yes, quite literally:

  This is a program for hackers by a hacker.

-- Linus, on the comp.os.minix newsgroup, in 1991

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.os.minix/4995SivO...