I am not at liberty to say who it is but I know a one person SaaS (well, now a 4 person SaaS) that does several million a year in revenue. They found a niche and wrote software for that niche. It is the tiniest of niches but is underserved.
Yes, yes. My point is that people create throwaways in order to knowingly post low-quality (toxic or otherwise) replies without having the downvotes affect their main accounts. If they thought their comment was going to make a positive contribution, they'd use their main account. So if they disvalue their own post, I'm certainly not going to value it.
Not always true. People have various reasons for using throwaway accounts, depending on the context.
HN's guidelines don't prohibit throwaways; they only discourage routine use of them:
Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create them routinely. On HN, users should have an identity that others can relate to.
It may be right that the throwaway account you replied to was gratuitous, but it's not true that they're only ever used for low-quality comments.
