There obviously isn't a lot of content in there at the moment but it is food for thought - we spend a lot of time glorifying failure but not enough time quantifying it and learning from it. While learning from success is more useful, if we had a fuller picture of what causes businesses to fail as well as succeed, it might help us do some legitimate inference work rather than the anecdotal guesswork that happens these days.
Rather than insulting you for committing the mortal HN sin of releasing on Windows, I'm going to say - great job. Looks fantastic and it is great to see how vibrant the Arduino community is these days. Keep up the good work and good luck with your search for contributors.
Rather than going through Craigslist, at my last startup we used http://www.usertesting.com/ - $39 bucks and the user testing video is all yours. Pretty decent.
An interesting take on things Dan, however I think the tendency for writers and VCs to focus on youngsters is their desire to find enormously outsized returns; specifically, those in the league of Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Google and Amazon.
Take, for example, this list of companies worth more than 1 Billion dollars:
You will immediately notice that most of the companies valued over $1Bn are valued at or around the $1Bn dollar mark. Contrast this with companies like Facebook and Google which are tens or hundreds of times larger than this.
The key is - the companies that have such a huge risk involved that they can only be tackled by young founders are the ones most likely to produce an outsized return. While most investors won't complain about a $1Bn exit, they would froth at the mouth at the thought of a $100Bn one.
That said, most entrepreneurs would be satisfied with a $10M exit, let alone a $1Bn one. With this in mind, no age can truly be considered 'over the hill'.
There obviously isn't a lot of content in there at the moment but it is food for thought - we spend a lot of time glorifying failure but not enough time quantifying it and learning from it. While learning from success is more useful, if we had a fuller picture of what causes businesses to fail as well as succeed, it might help us do some legitimate inference work rather than the anecdotal guesswork that happens these days.