<i>all to maintain Etsy,</i><p>Etsy is a strange thing.  Founded by a literally borderline insane person, taken away from him, given back to him, taken away from him, run as a complete engineering organization for what would seem almost like a trivial website.  They routinely release world-class tools, but why is a silly yarn-based-economy website incentivized to even create such things?<p>It&#x27;s like the Twitter problem: twitter has so many developers, but nothing seems to change.  What are all the engineers <i>doing</i> and why isn&#x27;t there anything to show for it?<p>Part of easy being a tech powerhouse is: they are also a cultural landing hub for people who just want to live and play in Brooklyn.  They end up with a lot of talented &quot;well, I live here and I want a job, where do I work&quot; people shuffling through who can do good work but don&#x27;t want to live far from their apartments.  There aren&#x27;t many tech companies nearby to compete against, so they have a weird concentration of talented people for being an oddly non-tech company.