[ajhit406]

I found it interesting that the author has actually submitted the same idea 4 times to varying degrees of interest:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=gliechtenstein

It’s easy to forget that good ideas take a lot of time and iterations until they become magical. Great things do not happen overnight and without much sacrifice. The majority of people would give up the first time the community dismissed their prototype.

Big props for not giving up.

[v512]

Exactly my thought. You need a bit of luck along with good project to get viral on HN. Otherday I saw simple PDF memo generator got lots of traction while so many other cool apps didn't even surface up.