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It appears that YC funds fewer than 100 startups twice per year, if you take five minutes per company that's about one full person-day every round, and you can

• nostrademons 11y ago
  They get about 6000 applicants, though. For it to be useful to an applicant, it has to be something that can raise you from "app would be ignored" to "might be interviewed", which means they have to do it on every application. At five minutes per company, that's more like 500 hours, or about 60 person-days. I suspect this was more of a factor when most of the YC partners read HN as part of their day. Then it was "free" work for them - they just would recognize usernames that pop up. I think Trevor's the only one still active on a daily basis here, so the chance that you'll draw a reader who actively reads HN and has some name recognition for top commenters is much lower. Also, the bar for "name recognition" is much higher now. I'm #23 on /leaders (I'd peaked out at #2 way back in 2008, when I was doing my first startup, but dropped significantly while hiding out within Google) and still feel like I don't really have any useful name recognition here.
  • JoachimSchipper 11y ago
    > [I] feel like I don't really have any useful name recognition here. Really? You're not tptacek or patio11, but I'd at least expect people interested in the kind of things you're interested in to recognize you. I do...