Nowhere in the post the author says or even recommends not to build and audience. All he is saying is that it souldn't be your main focus. > Hacker News is the

Nowhere in the post the author says or even recommends not to build and audience. All he is saying is that it souldn't be your main focus. > Hacker News is the perfect venue for this piece of content, since people here all wish they could just build something amazing and people would flock to it by default. The author is telling the crowd exactly what they want to hear, while ironically, building his own audience. What I got from the article is: building an audienc should not be the top priority, the quality of the audience matters more than the size of it and focus on creating valuable content. Again, it never discourages doing it.