[tomc1985]

People here seriously overvalue their work. How much effort put towards peoples' countless "Show HN" projects would have been better spent contributing to similar, more-developed open-source projects?

If this is the bazaar, maybe cathedrals ain't so bad...

Art is subjective, of course, and an artist is free to ask whatever they want for their work. I am unimpressed and probably not the target audience (as other comments allude).

[scottydelta]

This is where you are wrong, many of the 'more-developed open-source projects' are what once used to be on Show HN and other forums. Instead of working on their personal projects, if people only contributed to more-developed open-source projects, then that is all we will be left with, only those softwares, no new innovation.

[tomc1985]

I'm pretty sure the hit-to-miss rate on Show HN heavily favors "miss"

[bigiain]

So, the same as everything?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law