It's an organizational problem in its core - how to scale projects across people and teams is the most difficult problem in software engineering. HN is a proje

It's an organizational problem in its core - how to scale projects across people and teams is the most difficult problem in software engineering. HN is a project which one person can pull off and therefore could be nicely optimized. One talented person can achieve surprisingly much, but there is a limit somewhere. At that point you need to start adding people, but the more people you add to the project, the more diminishing results you'll see.