Right, good point. Sort of a chicken-or-egg situation. Also, this reminds me of Paul Graham's famous essay, Beating the Averages [1], about why and how he and

Right, good point. Sort of a chicken-or-egg situation. Also, this reminds me of Paul Graham's famous essay, Beating the Averages [1], about why and how he and his co-founders used Lisp at their startup Viaweb, which was later acquired by Yahoo! for ~40 million USD, IIRC. [1] http://paulgraham.com/avg.html http://paulgraham.com/avg.html I think it was this essay, along with his other one about the first summer school for founders (which later became Y Combinator), that attracted the attention of a lot of developers (some of whom later became successful YC applicants) and helped both YC and HN take off.