[arduinomancer]

There are lots of comments like that on HN every day.

I feel like a lot of them are just people who see something getting praise and need to put it down to make themselves feel better.

Seeing other people be clever somehow threatens them.

[Clubber]

I think people believe that the technology is what makes a company rather than the customers and overall market. I believed that for a while too. I could build this better than X company and I did, and it sat there doing nothing because I couldn't market / sell / monitize it. There's a hell of a lot to building a company and customer base; the technology is only part of that.

[Sohcahtoa82]

I think it's more a matter of a lot of HN users living in an echo chamber and not realizing that the extreme majority of the population is non-technical.

Good luck guiding grandma through setting up rsync.