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I'm surprised Hacker News is so quick to jump down tarsnaps throat. Profitability, heck, revenues is a freaking achievement, and we should be congratulating hi

• wheels 18y ago
  Tarsnap looks great and I've said so in the past, and may use it in the future. But if the title was, "Tarsnap turns 5" and later mentioned that it was founded in 2007, we'd probably also jump in to point out that it wasn't, in fact, 5 years old. That's what's happening here. The reason I and others get a bit knee-jerk-y with the "profitable" line is that it's said often here on HN of businesses that aren't.
• trapper 18y ago
  I think it's this: "I could walk away from tarsnap tomorrow (or get hit by a bus) and tarsnap would keep on running and making a profit." To me that's a fundamental understanding of business and is worrying.