[adriand]

Classy response. Now here's your chance to take lemons and make lemonade. Clearly your pet project is something that people find really interesting and useful. So it went public before you intended and had some security flaws: oh well, that's in the past now. Write your mea culpa about how much you learned from this experience, hit the front page of HN again, sign up a bunch of users, and go get some venture capital. Good luck!

[AVTizzle]

Couldn't agree more. There is a silver lining here is thick. Leverage it and win.

[justindocanto]

Somebody fund this guys 'how to make lemonade' book right now. Best advice on here.