Agreed. My goal was to share what I thought were solutions to generally common problems, and were't incredibly easy to find (i.e. > 3 google searches to find). The three libraries I selected were general tasks that lots of developers end up having to re-invent (especially phone number parsing).
Is parsing phone numbers really a common task for startups? (I've never needed to do it). Is the use-case just validating that the user didn't accidentally type their phone number incorrectly? (Seems if the user wants to give you the wrong phone number, they can just pick one out of a directory...)
True. More so if you come at it from the perspective of "I use C++ at my startup".
If, however, you use Python at your startup it's more interesting, while still somewhat subjective.
It is quasi-contextual, but it would seem that a lot of startups share the same problems so there is broad applicability.
Yeah but there are other Libraries around, and some people maybe like the "real" libphonenumber more.
Nothing against the article (not sure why I got down voted), I don't think it's bad to have a subjective meaning onto something, as long as I clearly state it. And the author also said it, so my comment was not against the article, that was just my subjective meaning about the article. ;)
Noting that an article of someone's recommendations is subjective is...well, you could have just said, "This is a blog post."