| My counter-example of a "successful" post with a failed product. I did more than a couple of Show HNs. The most upvoted one (49 upvotes) was one of the first ones with a mostly crappy product [0]. I was just starting to learn to code, it was an ugly, amateurish CRUD, lacking a lot of basic features. Unsurprisingly, it went no where. Not because of the software quality, but the product itself. It was an idea of organizing sales prospects info based on my own experience as a salesperson and the way I organized myself using Excel sheets. It was a neat idea and I believe that's why it was upvoted. I even had one of those "why should I use this product if I can do it myself with excel?" comments [1]. Turned out this one was right, as it was an excel sheet turned - unnecessarily - into a web app. The evidence is that I got only one or two signups, who never came back after the first visit. [0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7768857 [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7769115 |