No social media or aggregator site has ever been a developer's opportunity. If anything, they're a trap for entrpreneurial developers. The technology to start

No social media or aggregator site has ever been a developer's opportunity. If anything, they're a trap for entrpreneurial developers. The technology to start one of the communities and get it through the first several waves of order-of-magnitude growth is trivial. What's not trivial is drawing in enough users to seed a network effect and guiding/filtering those users towards a desired culture. That's not developer stuff; that's marketing, partnerships, opportunity, and luck.