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Using the Golden Research Engine to Query the Y Combinator S19 Batch
- glennon 7y agoThanks, Jude! From a quick scan, it seems there are quite a few companies in direct competition--particularly in: 1) incoming sharing education, 2) bespoke computer processors, 3) medical billing, and 4) recruiting software.
- lend000 7y agoWhere are you seeing the YC companies building computer processors?
- Kpourdeilami 7y agoThis is one that I came across in that list: https://www.tensil.ai/ https://www.tensil.ai/ there are probably more judging by parent comment
- glennon 7y agoTensil.ai and Vorticity.xyz. If they are not both on Golden's list (I'm on mobile right now so cannot easily check), they can be found on YC's companies page. Ycombinator.com/companies
- tylermenezes 7y agoGood observation! I don't think any of the ISA companies were direct competitors, but the number of companies that planned to earn revenue with ISAs this batch was super interesting to me.
- glennon 7y agoIn this batch, Juno College of Technology and Microverse both teach coding using income sharing agreements. Of course, from previous batches, Lambda School and Modern Labor are coding schools that charge via income sharing.
- anirudhmurali 7y agooff-topic, @glennon, I remember you compiled a list of all YC companies under github/investor-school before their official launches on demo days. Was expecting similar for YC S19. Not doing it this time?
- TekMol 7y agoThe batch looks like it's full of established companies with polished products and big clients. Wasn't YC about funding people before they even have a product?
- pgt 7y agoNow that YC has deal flow from more established companies, it no longer needs to take the same kind of risk.
- w1ntermute 7y agoAlso, it’s gotten substantially easier for a team of 1-2 to build a polished product on a shoestring budget than it was when YC originally started. The claims of big customers are likely mostly exaggerated—product-market fit is as difficult to achieve as ever.
- andrewstuart 7y agoYC is really operating at scale now!!
- nraford 7y agoHow is this different from AirTable or any other of the dozen of online spreadsheet tools? Just looks like an auto-aggregated table. Serious question: Where's the "research" here? Sorry, not trying to be antagonistic, just not seeing what's new here.