[liricooli]

I had the same experience and hold the same view.

As software developers, We've been taught that a good solution to a problem is a "generic" one, a "one fits all" solution.

for example, in this case, a solution that would fit "all" people interested in "any" topic.

The thing is, for all non-tech problems, the best solution is usually the specific one, the custom made one.

Most of the time when you try a generic solution, competitors specializing in a specific solution would beat you.

Jeff Atwood wrote about a similar idea and called it rule of the 3 [1]. I vaguely remember that he also wrote that they used this rule when starting StackOverflow.

[1] http://blog.codinghorror.com/rule-of-three/