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Y2 Combinator
- ekanes 19y ago"copying the Y Combinator site without making silly mistakes." Copying is great. Cost: cheap Copying and visually cloning something successful while insulting the original site while quoting friends of the original site? Priceless. Good grief. Do they think the kind of people they'll "catch" with this won't figure it out?
- mdemare 19y agoVery naive. Don't they know that Paul Graham has patented all fixed point combinators, not just the Y Combinator?
- mixmax 19y agoPaul Graham doesn't sue - he just delivers an arc kick to his opponents
- lst 19y ago"copying the Y Combinator site without making silly mistakes." Using the word 'silly' in the first paragraph of their site is one of the silliest mistakes they could make...
- gscott 19y agoThis must be satire.
- quickpost 19y agoIt is. The guy behind it is a Co-Founder of YCombinator Startup Auctomatic: http://collison.ie/ http://collison.ie/
- yters 19y agoNo it isn't. My startup, ReCurse, was accepted. We encourage our client's competition to fragment into many meta-startups, which our client can then acquire for next to nothing. So far we've been very successful and are taking applicants.
- stcredzero 19y agoWhat about Y^n Combinator? Y^n convinces our client's client's competition's competition to spend time thinking about meta-startups, thus preventing them from producing anything useful, which obviates the need for acquiring them in the first place. But this is only the precursor to Ackerman(Y) Combinator. But even thinking about that one makes my head spin.
- Leon 19y agoI have already begun development of BusyBeaver(Ackerman(Y)) Combinator. I'm hoping to complete it sometime in the next lifetime of the universe.
- nirmal 19y agoApparently they copied thumbnails of images to put in the flash scroller. Pixelization is not pretty.
- edw519 19y agoIf I apply to Y Combinator with my new start-up, Y3 Combinator, a start-up that writes web apps for companies that help companies that help companies get started, will we be in an endless loop?
- kirubakaran 19y agoycfolks: "Alright we'll fund you, but for FSM's sake change that name!" They said that for the name "Reddit" too I believe.
- ronoxq 19y agoReddit was called "Y2Combinator?"
- kirubakaran 19y agopg didn't like the name 'Reddit' in the beginning and encouraged them to change.
- joshwa 19y agoI think that already exists: http://www.angelsoft.net/ http://www.angelsoft.net/
- umjames 19y agoIt will be until the call stack overflows.
- papersmith 19y agoJust voluntarily go bankrupt every time a new company is funded, so it's tail-recursed.
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- dkokelley 19y agoCouldn't get it to load, so I had to find Google's cached version. The site was apparently created by http://collison.ie/ http://collison.ie/ which is by Patrick Collison, who also is a part of auctomatic (Chief Bottlewasher, according to their site) - a YC startup I believe. So in the end this looks like a just-for-laughs project by a former YC goer. (I don't know if these people are real or not, but did you notice their names? Paul Blackwell, Trevor Graham.)
- fleaflicker 19y agoMusta have been a slow friday afternoon.
- brett 19y agoLast time: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16764 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16764
- gojomo 19y agoDuring the last bubble's proliferation of 'incubators' (circa 2000), I joked with friends about starting 'Incubus', the incubator-incubator (and homage to the Shatner Esperanto horror movie). The next step would be 'In^3' ("Incubed"), the incubator-incubator-incubator... and so forth.
- ALee 19y agoWell, it doesn't have all the copycats just yet: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/guide_to_seed_fund_incubators.php http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/guide_to_seed_fund_incu...
- staticshock 19y ago"Y2 Combinator is a new kind of firm: a company that starts companies that starts companies." why don't people proofread shit?
- zitterbewegung 19y agoShouldn't it be another type of combinator?
- sabat 19y agoA hollow voice says "plugh".