> Market success or user count are unfortunately not tightly correlated with technical excellence, as many of us have bitterly found out It depends on how you

> Market success or user count are unfortunately not tightly correlated with technical excellence, as many of us have bitterly found out It depends on how you define technical excellence. I would suggest a low memory usage might get you a thumbs up from HN, but isn't real technical excellence the ability to solve users problems?