[jonathanberger]

I love this post. Thanks Ben. It's especially generous to share pageviews and revenue numbers which are so frequently kept private. I didn't though understand this point from the post:

> One other weird downside is that .. I sometimes catch myself thinking "should I build something just for the upvotes".

Is the author saying the attention from social media sites like Hacker News sometimes seems like motivation enough to build the next project?