I note that this has been mentioned in 5 comments before in the history of Hacker News. Which is approximately once for every terabyte of knitting patterns they have stored. Or once for every 100,000 registered users. Or once for every 700k monthly page views.

Excuse me. Daily page views.

But to look at how much attention they get among technically inclined people, you'd think they were less important than the average URL shortener.

There are a million and one underserved markets in the other half of the population, gentleman, and no one you know has any interest in competing with you if you slice off one of them.