Totally agree. For most people, even on HN, it is really hard to identify with all those multi million dollar fundings and billion dollar buy outs. This on the

Totally agree. For most people, even on HN, it is really hard to identify with all those multi million dollar fundings and billion dollar buy outs. This on the other hand, shows what is possible by one person and how it is not that easy to build something nice and useful. I hope OP keeps publishing posts on what worked, traffic stats, revenue stats etc. This is another site that was bootstrapped (I believe) http://www.forvo.com/ http://www.forvo.com/ and seems to be doing quite well (though the quality is debatable sometimes)