[tx]

So this is "Hacker News"? i.e. site for HACKERS to hang out?

Where stories about weight loss, Hollywood-grade entertainment industry rumors and get-rich-quick speculators routinely get voted up to the top, while kick-ass Rails API documentation site I submitted yesterday was not even noticed.

What's next? Britney's next pregnancy prediction?

[ConradHex]

The site is for entrepreneurs, mainly. As such, this article is completely relevant.

Maybe Rails isn't that popular here. (Personally I'm not crazy about it.) And Rails docs aren't really "news", are they?

[jwesley]

If you think the article is about a Get Rick Quick scheme you are entirely missing the point. It takes years of learning and a high level intelligence to make a bad website into a good one.

The real insight here is that profitable sites can the built and sold much more quickly by buying old sites and renovating them. This is because of Search, where old sites that already have some authority and rankings have a great advantage over recently registered domains.

[icey]

Maybe we're tired of seeing yet another Rails documentation site. Regardless of how good it was, aren't there like 50 of those things out there?