HN is growing, and with growth comes a dilution of focus. Inevitably there will be subsets of the community who feel their needs aren't being met on HN.
For example, if HN has 99 employees for every one founder, what do you think will happen if you try to discuss how to set up options and vesting such that in a liquidity event, the employees are still bound to the company and won't quit when they discover they have new bosses?
You aren't going to get the same conversation as if you just discuss the question with other founders. I'm not saying the HN discussion will be less valuable, but can we agree that some conversations will be different?
I have no idea if it's "worth it." What you see is the sweat of Stu's brow, not mine. All I can say is this: If you celebrate the idea of founding things, then you celebrate the idea of building entirely new things and finding out if it's worth it, and dealing with people who complain that the old thing is good enough.
Also, I could be wrong about this, but I don't see people moving to it any more than people moved from HN to Facebook or vice versa. Different communities for different purposes.
HN is a place for people who are interested in web startups not a place for founders. There's overlap, but it's simply not the same audience.
Somebody who is actively spending their life trying to grow a business doesn't have time to "actively participate" in HN, because HN is a timesuck. It's largely filled of stories that have little or no impact for somebody who is actually on the ground, executing their business.
None of this means that HN is a bad place. But active participation in this community is a bad idea for the entrepreneur whose target market is something other than startups.
HN is optimized towards links and news, despite the high quality Show HN and similar posts we get frequently. HN is also optimized toward a small content/big audience model which makes it hard to throw ideas around.
A site aiming to be the "Forrst for founders" would give entrepreneurs (budding or established) a space to throw around ideas, small screenshots, or bits of business knowledge that are just too "small" for HN.
For example, if HN has 99 employees for every one founder, what do you think will happen if you try to discuss how to set up options and vesting such that in a liquidity event, the employees are still bound to the company and won't quit when they discover they have new bosses?
You aren't going to get the same conversation as if you just discuss the question with other founders. I'm not saying the HN discussion will be less valuable, but can we agree that some conversations will be different?