Doesn't this story capture something of the essence of hacker-ness? Someone becomes curious about tech, wants to make something, does the hard work themselves,

Doesn't this story capture something of the essence of hacker-ness? Someone becomes curious about tech, wants to make something, does the hard work themselves, learns the hard way, gets the skills, actually makes the thing, ships it, makes people happy? Isn't it exactly the sort of thing that belongs on the front page of Hacker News?