> Are you saying that there's some, albeit weak, predictive power in HN comments?
I do claim that there is at least some (though far from perfect) predictive power whether a product or service will be liked or disliked by "hacking-minded" people. Also, because such people are sometime more vocal than the general population, I can imagine predictive power to exist whether some (planned) product or service will tend to cause controversies (in the future).
But it should be obvious that this is all about a specific market segment and target audience: there exist quite a lot of commercially successful products and services for which are not particularly liked by hackers.
I only barely agree with you, but if you're coming up with this conclusion by looking at the quality of these comments then I don't know what to say.
Thoughtless, low hanging critiques. Tangential rants. There's little salvageable here but if you think it's just "loud hackers", then idk what to say. The signal here is just too low. If that's what "loud hackers" say then I'd rather read Nextdoor.
I do claim that there is at least some (though far from perfect) predictive power whether a product or service will be liked or disliked by "hacking-minded" people. Also, because such people are sometime more vocal than the general population, I can imagine predictive power to exist whether some (planned) product or service will tend to cause controversies (in the future).
But it should be obvious that this is all about a specific market segment and target audience: there exist quite a lot of commercially successful products and services for which are not particularly liked by hackers.