My impression is that the Lisp development community is fairly small, and there's a serious lack of available software -- e.g. check Freshmeat. It looks like a

My impression is that the Lisp development community is fairly small, and there's a serious lack of available software -- e.g. check Freshmeat. It looks like a lot of it ends up being DIY. I'm not sure how much start-up secrecy plays into that, where once you've done the work to implement something in Lisp, you don't want to immediately share that with everyone else.