To be clear I'm not advocating secrecy. The website should say something about the product of course. People like you, or rather customers like you (and me) ar

To be clear I'm not advocating secrecy. The website should say something about the product of course. People like you, or rather customers like you (and me) are usually the biggest pain in that ass for a company. You not being interested is a much larger problem for you than it is for them. I'm not being insulting, but I am serious. If you are technical enough to read HackerNews, you are probably technical enough in your chosen domain to write the software yourself, or a least come very close to doing so. That means you're also more than likely to push the envelope, demand excellence and try to make the software do something that 99% of the user don't do. While this can sometimes be beneficial, when you have a targeted market it is often just very loud noise. People like you and I tend to be early adopters, and while we are critical for determining market fit, we tend to be a giant pain in the ass once that fit has been found, because most often we are not it. It all comes down to understanding that you are not the target market, even if it's still true that you would have use for the product.