[puranjay]

I see similar comments on virtually every ShowHN thread. "You can just take these 5 extra steps and do it yourself! This product will fail"

Somehow, HN seldom seems to grasp that people are inherently lazy and any solution that cuts work for them will find at least a few takers.

[imron]

They also fail to grasp that the know-how and ability of a technically minded person is different from most people who use computers.

My mum can use Dropbox. She could not set up an ftp account, mount it locally with curlftpfs, and then use SVN or CVS with it.

[zimpenfish]

> HN seldom seems to grasp that people are inherently lazy

I would dispute "inherently lazy" in favour of "have better things to spend their time on than crafting a personal solution to an already solved problem".