[jkkramer]

Reading the comments, I'm confused by the apparent hate. When I saw the article, I thought, "Hey, isn't this a mostly-solo operation? That's impressive."

Am I missing something? Is it just that people think the site is low class?

[Timothee]

I agree. This site's story is pretty inspiring to me. I don't know all the details but it really seems to be as simple as: one guy decides to create a website from his home, it becomes very successful and he makes millions.

I think the hate is mostly jealousy coming from the fact that this guy didn't seem to know what he was doing (he admits it himself), and that the design is pretty plain (now. A few years ago, it was actually terrible) but still made it huge.

I'm thinking that the story sounds actually similar to Craigslist but Craig Newmark is royalty: I suppose one difference is that the PoF guy talks about how much money he makes a lot more. People never likes that...