I was unaware that you're only allowed to publish something if it's fully complete, to the satisfaction of randos on hacker news. Are you actively trying to discourage people from posting their projects or is that just an accidental side-effect?

To be fair I didn't post it :)

Yeah, it's still very very early in the process and I released it as I have a talk at Ruby Kaigi going over some of how this works next Tuesday, so I wanted something out even if it's simple for now.

Because someone posted it and others upvoted the post. I know that's stating the obvious but that's the reason and there doesn't need to be any other.