"Popular on HN" and "Conducive to a profitable business" are nearly disjoint sets. One of the main products at my job is a new site that we've spent a lot of t

"Popular on HN" and "Conducive to a profitable business" are nearly disjoint sets. One of the main products at my job is a new site that we've spent a lot of time making performant and readable but we're still building an app experience because we want to meet our users (particularly affluent users) where they are.