It'd be nice to put in another curve for 'value of HN comments in shaping startups.' Do those peaks feed periods of frenzied success (inspiring people to do be

It'd be nice to put in another curve for 'value of HN comments in shaping startups.' Do those peaks feed periods of frenzied success (inspiring people to do better stuff faster)? Or do they lag periods of success (pearls of wisdom come out when people are past the sweat-soaked white knuckle phase)? Or is there some other correlation?