For those that don't want to read it:<p>He posted on Hacker News and got up to #2 on the front page and got a lot of good suggestions. He then got mentioned on TechCrunch in the first paragraph of an article. He had to shut down invites due to technical issues.<p>Honestly, this seems pretty standard for getting those 2 things, only 1 of which was his doing.<p>He is very thankful to the HN community, though.
I think that you have a really exciting idea on your hands. I can't wait until the product matures and you can offer some case studies of cool widget dashboards that people have assembled. That way, I can just copy their setups instead of having to wrap my brain around a new technology. Once that kind of thing is ready, I would love to receive an email blast about it on your newsletter. Thanks!