[dvt]

Why are you being such a stick-in-the-mud? It's an interesting and inspiration post on HN about a successfull bootstrapped indie startup. HN is primarily a startup & tech-driven community, so obviously we're all interested in stories like this. In fact, I miss the days where HN was almost solely startup post-mortems or success stories. How is the post even remotely self-congratulatory spam?

[DidYaWipe]

Because it doesn't provide insightful guidelines on how to avoid pitfalls or how to work around this or that impediment or, or, or.

Whatever, man. I guess we have different standards for what constitutes "informative."