This discussion reminds me of Fred Wilson's article about bit.ly "That's only Ten Lines of Code"<p><a href="http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/03/thats-only-ten-lines-of-code.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/03/thats-only-ten-lines-of-code...</a><p>Sure, you can replicate lots of sites but to me Reddit wasn't great because of the tech, it was because they had built something really zeitgeisty that people liked.