If BCC were all Patrick had done, this would indeed be an odd phenomenon. But the very next thing Patrick did after proving out his ideas with BCC was to put them to work for consulting clients. If any of you ever thought that high-end appsec bill rates were high, you should see how companies value services that immediately yield multiple percentage point uplifts in sales.

The more interesting thing to me is how par-for-course BCC was for the MicroISV community. I think Patrick might be a particularly disciplined example of a MicroISV person, but his success isn't outlandish in context. I feel like the MicroISV vantage point is something that HN could use more of.

(Caveat: Patrick's cofounder this time around, and one of his clients at a previous company).