Great work! I love when organic user behaviors are recognized and made first class features.

Allow me to emphasize something from the Show HN Guidelines[1]:

> Be respectful. Anyone sharing creative work is making a contribution, however modest.

> Ask questions out of curiosity. Don't cross-examine.

> Instead of "you're doing it wrong", suggest alternatives. When someone is learning, help them learn more.

> When something isn't good, you needn't pretend that it is. But in that case, consider saying nothing.

The comments section of Show HN posts are not an invitation for you to tear someone apart for your own self-aggrandizing glory. If you want to be helpful, be constructive. If you don't want to be helpful, don't bother.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

I agree 100%.

In addition, a friendly reminder to us all...

When you see a Show HN, assume that whoever created it, perhaps not unlike you, is working to drive his or her dreams into existence. Each post represents a dream, a personal story, a literal piece of their Life.

For many of us, perhaps the majority of us, that means grinding at the mine during the day, returning home after perhaps a long commute, spending time with and cooking for our family, our significant other, etc... then, clocking back in at 9:00pm or 10:00pm to bring it for the next several, precious hours, working to make the dream real... then catching some sleep, waking up and turning around and dropping the hammer all over again.

It's just something to remember as you comment to someone about their work.

My advice to people who want to work in a startup is always very simple: Ignore any equity.

If you'd take the job without any equity then take the job. If the equity is part of your reason for taking the job, you probably shouldn't take it.

Base rate neglect[1] means we are terrible at evaluating the probability of equity being valuable. For every story about someone making millions out of their equity when the startup they're working for exits there are thousands of stories of people who walked away with nothing but a few years having fun solving challenging problems. That is the reason to work in a startup, because that is the definite, concrete thing on the table. If you want to make millions in software, get a job writing code at a bank and invest your salary.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy