Ask HN: Why is Techmeme so successful?

I am a huge fan of a similar product in China - https://tophub.today/

Wish someone could have made a better version. https://techurls.com/ has better user interface but seems like some contents are not being updated.

Any aggregator will be successful since people don't want to manually search for news & trends. The real trick is aggregating the aggregators. That's still a hard problem.

I hadn't heard of it until the TechMemeRideHome podcast fwiw

I have never heard of it either. Looks like a news aggregator. At first glance, even though I like aggregators, I think I prefer the HN style aggregators that prioritize discussion.