>Just getting on the front page of HN means he got 10k+ views.... You can't really claim the blog was a bad idea when it just succeeded wildly. Ugh. I have no

>Just getting on the front page of HN means he got 10k+ views.... You can't really claim the blog was a bad idea when it just succeeded wildly. Ugh. I have no idea how you get such success with marketing (e.g. HN front page), beyond... wait for it... telling people how you were successful with marketing. If you're so lucky, more power to you. And for the record, I never said a blog was a bad idea.