[Nilzor]

Why is that relevant? _diminish_ points out misleading marketing in the HN post title. It aggrevates me as well, even though the presentation on their web site is nice and all that.

_edit_: I can see that your post is relevant with regards to (3) - "problem solved for the first time". They may have some features that no others have, such as alerts. There are many similar apps though. One example: Netlimiter http://www.netlimiter.com/

[Kudos]

You're ignoring the aesthetics of the app and the marketing. It stands apart because of it.

To give you an anecdotal idea of how compelling that can be, I booted my gaming Windows machine just to take a closer look at it.