Given the great reception this has received, let me give an example, and one of HN's great "successes" - patio11. Guy made a tiny, miserable little service tha

Given the great reception this has received, let me give an example, and one of HN's great "successes" - patio11. Guy made a tiny, miserable little service that would have made more money if he worked at Walmart. He was the seer who provided day after day of front page content for this site, the "fake it till you make it" ruse in full effect. Because his product was so miserably unsuccessfully he instead put all of his effort into blog posts and "lessons" for people to follow, and the suckers lined up. People with actually successful products were just off being successful.