[chengiz]

I agree he frames it incorrectly, but he has not failed in terms of results. If he framed it as "I want to talk to people", it would not be posted on HN, and no one would be visiting his site or discussing his shower thought.

[noduerme]

It's not really healthy to view such a thing as success, unless your goal is to become good at bullshitting people (as opposed to creating lasting things of value that you can be proud of). Lots of great projects show up in HN and receive no views. On the other hand lots of self promoters who say nothing imortant get tons of views. Ideally you'd want to be in the middle, where you made something awesome and were good at promoting it.