But their contributions are not valued. You can spend a year working on something cool and when you finally show it to the world the most you get is a couple up

But their contributions are not valued. You can spend a year working on something cool and when you finally show it to the world the most you get is a couple upvotes on Hackernews and people using it for maybe 10-15 minutes and then never again. That’s the reality for many people.