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YC's latest batch has a "drop-in replacement" for WordPress that is actually a rewrite-your-app headless CMS with little differentiation from every other headle
by eropple 8y ago
YC's latest batch has a "drop-in replacement" for WordPress that is actually a rewrite-your-app headless CMS with little differentiation from every other headless CMS and a "don't worry, you don't need to know how to code to automate crypto trading, we definitely aren't watching for which models work!"
Bullshit abounds. And YC is supposed to be the smart-and-decent money.
TBH, one of the really nice things about living around here is that if I take a meeting with a funded company they almost certainly hit at least some bar of seriousness. All successful companies? Definitely not, but there is a lot less chaff for me to filter through.
- woah 8y agoWait... you’re saying that someone’s a scammer just because they are working on a CMS?
- solarmist 8y agoAs a business? Yeah, probably. Who’s gonna pay for that when there’s good free ones.
- borski 8y agoWhy would anyone pay for Dropbox when they could just use rsync? It’s free!
- eropple 8y agoNo. I'm saying they're bullshitters (and ones with dishonest marketing, to boot--go look at the CosmicJS Show HN and tell me that it doesn't make the part of you that cares about honesty start itching). You don't have to be running a scam to be a bullshitter. But you do have to have an undeserved and unwarranted sort of presentation, and you likely don't have much cattle to go with that hat.
- borski 8y agoYou seem to be equating “high risk” with bullshit. That’s not the case - the appetite for risk is higher here, that’s true. But it’s not like companies can just stand up and have money thrown at them; due diligence is real, though mistakes do happen.