If you're not popular, only a few people will notice your product is good. Being popular helps your good work being noticed more publicly. The only reason Hunc

If you're not popular, only a few people will notice your product is good. Being popular helps your good work being noticed more publicly. The only reason Hunch.com got so much popularity on launch is because it was a project by Flickr founder Caterina Fake. If you or I had made an exact site, it wouldn't have got even 1/10th the coverage. Being popular helps if you can repeat your past successes.