Seems like a cool idea but have you considered what role your popularity plays in all of it? I consider myself a casual visitor to HN and more of a lurker than anything yet I still recognize your site immediately meaning you've gained traction with random folk like myself let alone more hardcore members.
"I wrote spark in bash shell. From the start, this gave me a huge audience."<p>It also helps to be a prominent employee and user of a central developer community, with over 800 followers.
This is the same process that happened to me when I created <a href="http://dummyimage.com" rel="nofollow">http://dummyimage.com</a> (Complete history of the project: <a href="http://www.russellheimlich.com/blog/the-history-of-dummyimage-com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.russellheimlich.com/blog/the-history-of-dummyimag...</a>)<p>The funny thing is my project laid dormant for years until a friend of mine shared it here on HackerNews.
Meet SparkBotMe (SparkBot is taken by an evil robot creator).<p>SparkBotMe is a twitter account that will graph your mention.
simply @SparkBotMe a comma seperated list of numbers and it will reply with a graph
I wonder how he even got the idea to create something like spark. It's such a "unique" project. I wonder if he has a list of ideas or it just came to him spur of the moment.