What's with the snarky comments? The guy build a successful business with happy customers. He didn't make it in 2% of his time, he built it over the years with experience from other projects and solved an issue people are willing to pay money for. Maintenance now might be on low time but doesn't mean it's easy to solve a problem and consistently ship the solution. I honestly think most of you have a misunderstanding about serviced software and the demand for it. The fact that you can do it with a Docker script and some time doesn't mean it works properly for all use cases or everyone can and should manage that infrastructure themselves. Some people happily pay for it so they don't have to worry whether their instance is still running and can call support instead of firing a terminal and looking through obscure Stackoverflow answers. He even open sourced his entire business. Instead of throwing apples, try to learn something or at least appreciate the effort.
Outside of the echo circle you have a celeb circle. They intersect at some point but the intersected oval isn't that big. I am not saying you are common-denominator-fluff, just that some people simply upvote you when they see your user name.
Having said that, I think your opinion and views on the echo-chamber are highly biased and out of scope.
Here's one of them. I could spit through dozens of comments and put a whole list of comments here to satisfy your request further - but would it make a difference? It's well known (and probably verified research can confirm) that vote-systems adhere to common denominator circle-jerking.
Can anyone explain to me how this is not putting the common denominator in more power even further? At this point, unless you extensively agree with the majority of the echo circle, I doubt you will be able to have any impact on discussions.
Every thread is a rehearsal with same opinions at the top over and over and non-fitting opinions float to the bottom. In which turn, they get less "downvote-power" so they will stay low and can't get their peers above. I am not saying that the current flow of discussion is bad, I am just saying that participation is flawed.
We are simply in a system where you get awarded to fit to the masses and you get more power once you have been accepted into the hive-mind. A circular-reference at some point.