[paulcole]

> isn't it possible to build this yourself in Python in an afternoon?

Is anyone keeping a running list of products that HN commenters have suggested could be built in an afternoon/weekend?

Ones I've seen so far: Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, and now Shazaam.

[fuck_google]

Building the service is not usually the hard part, but building the ecosystem around it is. There were/are countless services similar to Facebook or Twitter, but only a few of them can be really successful because of herd mentality.