So people find a better way to get money and the old hardened crowd here gets cranky? How fast we grow into curmudgeons. I need to find a new "hacker news" that still has the spirit and would say "holy cow, congrats, amazing work, and we should look to see if we can exploit that next time too". So much for the spirit of the entrepreneur and hacker. Seems old school corporate crankiness. :(
That's the terribly hard thing about building a worthwhile community and what draws us all here. You need some strong nucleus and just as you don't know me from jack, I don't know you either. PG founded this place initially and that drew most of us here. Then that community he brought kept us here. Now in some people's opinions it may be getting a bit sour, but it's also been amazing for a long (longer than average on the net?) time. That's a good accomplishment.
But as to your question? I don't know you and don't see why any clone you created would be any better than one I created. I came here as much for the commentary. And it's that I'm starting to loose respect for. I don't see how you or I could replicate that on our own.
It's not simple this community building and maintaining game.
