That's likely because this is a blast from the past. Someone mentioned [0] his HN handle up-thread [1] and linked to his complaint in 2015 about spam from Buil

That's likely because this is a blast from the past. Someone mentioned [0] his HN handle up-thread [1] and linked to his complaint in 2015 about spam from BuiltWith [2] where the founder responded with an apology and a way to remove his site from their index. Once I understood that value of BuiltWith myself, I absolutely felt the same way about Dan's characterisation of BuiltWith as "brilliantly simple and profitable". 0: He likely found about via an email notification from a neat tool he made for just this purpose http://hnreplies.com http://hnreplies.com 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33185733 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33185733 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10316060 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10316060