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Y Combinator Resources for Developers
- DarkWiiPlayer 8y agoThat site looks quite ugly because of the weird alignment (or lack thereof) of text elements.
- aboutruby 8y agoA little padding and a small border would make it much more readable https://i.imgur.com/D7CNgwa.png https://i.imgur.com/D7CNgwa.png
- aboutruby 8y agoHad no idea Heroku went through YC, also shouldn't this include OpenAI? (edit: Thanks, missed it)
- pcstl 8y agoThey are listed in the final section (s2016)
- nathan_f77 8y agoWow, it looks like they paid $11,500 for the yc.dev and ycombinator.dev domains [1]. (I guess that's a pretty small amount of money for YC.) I have my eye on some short .dev domains too, but I'm hoping to get one for $350. [2] https://domains.google/tld/dev/ https://domains.google/tld/dev/
- skellera 8y agoSomeone had mentioned that there was a limited brand/copyright phase before the $11k phase that was cheaper. Pretty sure they would fall into that. Hopefully someone who knows the details could chime in on that.
- CydeWeys 8y agoThe relevant program here would be: https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/announcements-and-media/announcement-10apr14-en https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/announcements-and-media/announ...
- teddyh 8y agoUnder the “Ask a Female Engineer” heading, I wish they would include a link to https://communequation.wordpress.com/2017/07/05/im-not-a-woman-in-tech/ https://communequation.wordpress.com/2017/07/05/im-not-a-wom... for an alternate viewpoint, in order to reduce the echo chamber effect.
- onion2k 8y agoThis is YC's site, which presents their view, which can be as partisan as they want it to be. There's no need for balance. Your opposing view is fine but they don't have to, and shouldn't, promote it if it's not what they believe.
- Chris2048 8y agoDid anyone suggest they can't "be as partisan as they want it to be"? This is teddyh's comment, he can say what he wishes.
- kfwhp 8y agoAnd teddyh is making a suggestion. Hence "I wish". You are being unnecessarily rude.
- DarkWiiPlayer 8y ago> can be as partisan as they want it to be Sure, but it would still be cool if it wasn't.
- DarkWiiPlayer 8y agoThat was an interesting read, thanks for sharing :D
- brlewis 8y agoI know women who feel the same way as the writer you cite. They want to just do their thing without being singled out as different, and don't feel the same need for solidarity that the "women in tech" women do. That's a valid viewpoint. But I don't see the "echo chamber effect" you're talking about. I think most people seeking out the "Ask a Female Engineer" series are aware of other viewpoints that exist. The main thing I wish they would do under that heading is link to the category, not just one of the blog posts. https://blog.ycombinator.com/category/ask-a-female-engineer/ https://blog.ycombinator.com/category/ask-a-female-engineer/
- newsbinator 8y agoI'd love to scan down the relevant YC companies list, but it's really hard for a human to visually parse: https://i.imgur.com/1u457oA.jpg https://i.imgur.com/1u457oA.jpg A little white space would be helpful.
- inf3cti0n95 8y agoLooks like they were in a hurry to get this site out.
- nkozyra 8y agoI'm seeing a lot of this with the .dev sites.
- whatshisface 8y agoI don't see why .dev domains would have tighter deadlines than .com.
- dewey 8y agoBecause the domain registration just opened up?
- baud147258 8y agoAnd I don't think one need the domain name to start working on a website?
- nkozyra 8y agoPeople spent more money on them and are eager to show them off. For a very short period they will be a status symbol for internet companies.
- chiefalchemist 8y agoStatus symbol? Those who know won't likely be impressed. Those who don't can't be impressed. That might be what the buyer is hoping for, but the reality is they're probably mistaken.
- Etheryte 8y agoI guess we finally found out who paid early access for the .dev TLD.
- byte1918 8y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunrise_period https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunrise_period
- CydeWeys 8y agoAlso https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/announcements-and-media/announcement-10apr14-en https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/announcements-and-media/announ...
- hoffs 8y agoThe Google announcement page actually had a few companies listed who purchased/use it already.
- chiefalchemist 8y agoI wonder how many of the YC companies use the other YC companies. And which are the most / least used. How much effort do you reckon is put in trying to "align" them and keep them aligned? As in there's a consistency in (e.g.) docs, APIs, etc.
- pault 8y agoOne of the primary benefits of YC is getting a bunch of other YC companies as your first customers.
- judge2020 8y agoI would bet Stripe is the most used.
- heartbreak 8y agoDropbox?
- judge2020 8y agoMost all of the domains on the list are using GSuite, so I would think at least some use Google drive instead of Dropbox.
- samdoidge 8y agoThe https://scaphold.io/ https://scaphold.io/ URL is down.
- ahstilde 8y agoThey were acquired by AWS and rolled into AppSync
- wolco 8y agoWish they didn't use the .dev extension. It should be developers.ycombinator.com
- everdev 8y agoYeah, have to update my local DNS routes. I had .dev pointed to 127.0.0.1
- judge2020 8y agoThis has been the topic of HN for the past few days for anything .dev. You should be using .test or .localhost for any development domains: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606#section-2 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606#section-2
- wolco 8y agoUntil someone buys test. Will a boycott .dev site movement take hold?
- CydeWeys 8y agoICANN will never delegate .test. It's reserved per the linked RFC.
- everdev 8y agoI did this years ago. Developers have been using .dev for decades, these TLDs are pretty new.
- steventhedev 8y ago.corp, .home, and .lan are also reserved, just not codified into an RFC yet.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> .corp, .home, and .lan are also reserved, just not codified into an RFC yet. They aren't reserved as the term is usually used for domains. Reservations don't exist in outside of those codified in RFCs; the IANA is the party that reserves domains and the full current list of reserved special use domains is here: https://www.iana.org/assignments/special-use-domain-names/special-use-domain-names.xhtml https://www.iana.org/assignments/special-use-domain-names/sp... More general info on reserved domains is here: https://www.iana.org/domains/reserved https://www.iana.org/domains/reserved Note that of those domains you falsely describe as reserved, .home was suggested as a special use domain in RFC 7788, but that was updated by RFC 8375 to the reserved domain .home.arpa. .home, .corp, and .mail (but not .lan, AFAICT) are subject to a ICANN policy decision against granting delegations as TLDs, though, which means they won't become real TLDs while that policy is in effect (it doesn't mean they won't get reserved for a use which might conflict with what you might adopt them for, the way .local has for some uses, though.)
- jnordwick 8y agoNice advertisement.
- acquiretoast 8y agoLink is plain http for me. I thought all .dev domains were https?
- TonnyGaric 8y ago>I though all .dev domains were https If you go to http://yc.dev http://yc.dev, you get an HTTP 307 (Internal redirect) to https://yc.dev https://yc.dev. https://get.dev/#benefits https://get.dev/#benefits says: >The .dev top-level domain is included on the HSTS preload list, making HTTPS required on all connections to .dev websites and pages without needing individual HSTS registration or configuration.
- cs702 8y agoIs Paul Graham and Robert Morris's Arc language[a] being used for anything in production other than Y Combinator websites? [a] http://arclanguage.org/ http://arclanguage.org/
- azhenley 8y agoI'm curious about this too. There still seems to be interest in the project. The forum gets new topics posted every few days [1] and Anarki, a community ran fork of Arc, shows recent commits [2]. [1] http://arclanguage.org/forum http://arclanguage.org/forum [2] https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki
- earenndil 8y agoI don't think so, although as the sibling says there is hobby activity. Interestingly enough, though, reddit was originally written in arc, but they later rewrote it in python. Make of that what you will.
- blue1 8y agoReddit was written in Common Lisp, not Arc.
- jedberg 8y agoAs sibling said, reddit was CL before it was Python. But more importantly, reddit predates Arc by more than two years. :) And the main reason reddit was rewritten was library support. Doing simple things in CL was hard because you had to write it from scratch, but doing those things in Python was a simple library install.
- dooglius 8y agoI thought that the .dev extension had mandatory HTTPS due to HSTS preload. Yet, this loads as "Not Secure" HTTP for me.
- TonnyGaric 8y agoAccording to https://get.dev/#benefits https://get.dev/#benefits: >The .dev top-level domain is included on the HSTS preload list, making HTTPS required on all connections to .dev websites and pages without needing individual HSTS registration or configuration. What browser are you using that you are not redirected to https://yc.dev https://yc.dev? >Most major browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE 11 and Edge) also have HSTS preload lists based on the Chrome list. (See the HSTS compatibility matrix.)
- gbear605 8y agoiOS Safari (and other iOS browsers) auto redirects to http://ycombinator.dev/ http://ycombinator.dev/
- TonnyGaric 8y agoStrange. I wouldn't expect that, because according to https://caniuse.com/#feat=stricttransportsecurity https://caniuse.com/#feat=stricttransportsecurity, the latest versions of Chrome and Safari for iOS do support Strict Transport Security.
- gbear605 8y agoI’m on iOS 12.2, which that site says supports Strict Transport Security.
- CydeWeys 8y agoCan you confirm that it's not rewriting the URL to https://yc.dev https://yc.dev first before issuing a request to the network? It's possible that Safari has suffered some kind of regression. This definitely used to work at some point. I can confirm here in Chrome and Firefox that the URL is rewritten internally to https://yc.dev https://yc.dev (which then redirects to https://ycombinator.dev https://ycombinator.dev), so no unencrypted traffic is ever sent over the network.
- TonnyGaric 8y agoI just noticed that clicking on 'About YC' (top, next to YC logo), results in a 404. Looks like the link contains a '/' too much: https://www.ycombinator.com//about/ https://www.ycombinator.com//about/
- Impossible 8y agoShould this list filter companies that are shutdown or have been acquired and no longer have an active product? Many of the links are "our incredible journey" acquihire announcements or just 404. I understand and appreciate the value of having a list of all developer services companies that have gone through YC, but as a developer resource page it's annoying to see a product that might fit my needs but is long shutdown.
- snowmaker 8y agoGood point - I'll filter those out.
- m3andros 8y agoDoes anyone know I can still reach this 'real' website if you're running Valet locally? I get 'Valet - 404 - Not Found' error, since Valet thinks 'yc' is a known Link or Address. :(
- m3andros 8y agoOK, I figured it out! I switched .dev to .test domain with: `valet tld test`
- nnq 8y agoIs "Beating the Averages" still relevant in 2019? I see it pretty high up on the site, and I thought the consensus is that nowadays most languages have enough lispy and functional features to give similar productivity. Is there any benefit from hyperflexible languages high enough to outweigh the benefits of readily available libraries?
- brlewis 8y agoIt's hard to do reproducible experiments measuring productivity, but my personal opinion is it's still relevant. I say that as someone doing mostly JavaScript and TypeScript development day by day. I often miss the clean syntax and macro facilities of Scheme. I used to use Kawa Scheme a lot, which runs on the JVM, so readily available libraries were never a problem. Libraries, documentation and community are reasons to use non-Lisp languages for certain projects, but if you don't have some kind of Lisp in your toolbox, you're still missing out in 2019, in my opinion.
- ltr_ 8y ago> Docker s2010 App store for server configurations. it seems a little bit outdated
- wizwazzle 8y agoWhat a half-assed website. Seems quite rushed. I'd expect higher-quality information from YC.
- dtrailin 8y ago> Beating the Averages > A classic article on using powerful programming languages as a secret weapon I'm surprised this is included given that it's been more or less been proven to be false. Almost every valuable company in the past 2 decades was built on a blub language. Facebook even used PHP! Java and C++ are at the core of most Amazon and Google services. There basically haven't been any big companies build on a lisp-like language unless you consider Scala, but even the most companies adopted that later. edit: blub
- dctoedt 8y ago> bulb language Had to look that up — do you mean a blub language?
- gumby 8y agoWhat's a "bulb" language (or what did you mean to type that got autocorrected into "bulb"?)
- daniel-cussen 8y agoBlub language, in the essay "Beating the Averages".
- lisper 8y ago> it's been more or less been proven to be false Not really. It's true that few big winners have used Lisp, but that would only disprove the thesis if there were also companies who tried using Lisp and failed. AFAICT, no one is even doing the experiment. I actually know of two notable counterexamples: Barefoot Networks has an internal design tool written in Common Lisp that is a significant source of competitive advantage for them. Also Orbitz.
- nojvek 8y agoWhy isn’t Mixpanel in this list ? It’s a developer tool right?
- whalabi 8y agoPardon the criticism, but I've got text running far off the screen on mobile. Somewhat shocking to see a brand new 2019 website that isn't responsive, especially when it's not super difficult.