People who are on the sidelines are always claiming they could do it better, or otherwise downplaying other's attempts to make something cool. Apparently you haven't been able to make any apps that caught anyone's attention, and it sounds like you're jealous that something you perceive as equal to your efforts did.
Honestly, I'd never intentionally hire anyone with your attitude.
I've used set theory to hack up a search engine for a collab project in an evening.
I've made an app that gets around the lack of transactions in MySQL MyISAM and allows auditing of arbitrary django ORM models with logs.
I wrote a micro-compiler last night using llvm and my own lexer, parser, and tokenizer.
I simply don't write things that are necessarily "accessible" to the general public, and I don't go out of my way to promote them.
The fact that I'm leery of people who are aggressive self-promoters or opportunistic doesn't mean I'm "jealous", I don't actually want to work for Google.
I'm leery because in past experience, the aggressive self-promoters are covering for a lack of something, whether it be scruples or technical aptitude.
I was making an observation and expressing reservation, you're outright saying you wouldn't hire me.
But hey, lesson learned, I'll just make one-off apps that don't actually do anything and promote the shit out of them.
God forbid someone express reservations about the enthusiasm over relatively unproductive demonstrations without getting publicly hammered by a well known startup personality.
You shame yourself and demonstrate why many programmers I know don't take Silicon Valley seriously.
Honestly, I'd never intentionally hire anyone with your attitude.