FYI: You'll also get down voted for commenting on the down votes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I suspect you received down votes because your initial comment comes off as dismissive. A lot of HN members tend towards encouraging constructive criticism rather than only pointing out limitations (especially for Show HNs† which this effectively is) in the interest of facilitating a civil forum. Given the limitations of text (particularly online), it's easy to misinterpret tone. I think you could have said essentially the same thing with some simple rephrasing. For example:

> "I think this is likely a useful exercise. That said, I'm not sure I see myself actually using this."

> "We already have web server..."

Yeah, it's subtle, but I think it comes off differently as it's more upfront that doing this may actually have had a use. And both the writer and the reader are involved in the communication: you yourself can only control so much.

Anyway, this is only speculation.

† https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Look at all the other gray comments here. Any comment questioning why this is so great appears to be severely triggering the masses.

Please don't break the HN guidelines by going on about voting in comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html