I don't think that pg's goal is growth for growth's sake: "When we launched in February 2007, weekday traffic was around 1600 daily uniques. It's since grown t

I don't think that pg's goal is growth for growth's sake: "When we launched in February 2007, weekday traffic was around 1600 daily uniques. It's since grown to around 22,000. This growth rate is a bit higher than I'd like. I'd like the site to grow, since a site that isn't growing at least slowly is probably dead. But I wouldn't want it to grow as large as Digg or Reddit—mainly because that would dilute the character of the site, but also because I don't want to spend all my time dealing with scaling." http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html