[LinuxBender]

I do not know the answer to your question and I can see why you feel this way.

If I were going to start up a new company I would want a significant team of cynical people and think-tanks to pick apart my ideas and plans. Having said that I would take all the input with a grain of salt being the worst case scenario but I would not waste that information and would have my board members debate each and every point that members of HN brought up. We would risk rank each item and assign a score based on whatever metrics we can get and integrate that into our business plans and SEC paperwork.

Why would I want to subject myself and others to this? I have lived through the dot-bomb era of investors and business leaders wearing rose tinted glasses then making off with money leaving a pile of dust in their wake and putting many people out of work and holding worthless stock certificates. This is still a thing to a lesser degree. I believe this uncomfortable exercise could lend itself to showing an attempt at due diligence of fiduciary responsibility.

All of that said I can see how a product developer could find this exercise disheartening.