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by reedcat 5255 days ago
It is a great success story but it is also a story of someone being in the right place at the right time. Instapaper was in the app store the very next day after store went alive. Seems like a typical story described in Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_%28book%29