With no additional information, would you expect a company selling a product that fixes a real problem that real businesses with real money actually have and are willing to spend money fixing to be more or less profitable than the startup in the linked article? How many Instagrams does instagramfixerthing.com have to connect to how many Twitters before they are matching the revenue from a single $50/month plan from a boring tools company?
B2B makes a lot of sense. So that's why people build B2B companies.
B2B is great - my startup is B2B. I'm just saying I am seeing a lot of startups whose sole market is other startups. And they are not impressive. Wouldn't you say the hacker news crowd is a bit jaded? Review my startup is great, but not sure if the startup you built is a startup for startups is the right direction for most of these people unless they do something amazing. And so far I have not seen it.
The conventional wisdom is to start with a niche, do well, and expand. They may not be impressive to you yet, but certainly some of them have the ability to do more that what you can see initially.
Compare the tool seller you describe to this other "review my startup" that happens to be on the "new" page at the moment:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4904624
With no additional information, would you expect a company selling a product that fixes a real problem that real businesses with real money actually have and are willing to spend money fixing to be more or less profitable than the startup in the linked article? How many Instagrams does instagramfixerthing.com have to connect to how many Twitters before they are matching the revenue from a single $50/month plan from a boring tools company?
B2B makes a lot of sense. So that's why people build B2B companies.