I have been 'playing' with pioneer.app for two month. I kind of of like it. But I am biaised : I have always liked innovation... Pioneer, the most consuming p

I have been 'playing' with pioneer.app for two month. I kind of of like it. But I am biaised : I have always liked innovation... Pioneer, the most consuming part is on Monday evening where I comment, judge 10 startup match. It take a few hours if you do it well. You are in a position like people at YC receiving pitchs. Most of people in my surroundings would find this 'job' painfull. I just love it. If you do it seriously, it's great to help creators, to give them a few advice sometimes, to celebrate their achievements. So yes, pioneer is-and-was a very good fit for me. And as a result, with my startup, I get often great advice. I would say a mix of many'consumer' advices (often), and entrepreneur cleaver ones (sometimes). The most interesting is perhaps to understand that, when a consumer critic comes back often and repeatedly, you, as a startup founder understands that THIS critic point has to be fix right away. It's clever ! In a way Pioneer's comments enlightens and ranks the differents small failures of your startup. Be it, the 'ugly web site' or other things... In a way I find pioneer to be the more energetic and an interesting bijective experience, much more than Ycombinator. Because it successfully solves the big downside of YC as a startup founder : At YC you pitch, you describe everything of your startup. And then ... True(interview,great) or False (nope... ). I mean, there is no in-between : you do not know if you were far-away ranked or close to being accepted for an interview. Here at pioneer.app the process of selection is crowd-sourced to us founders, and I believe it works : 1) I know my rank in a weekly base. It can be harsh but it's instructive. 2) I believe it scales better than YC in the Long run because us founders do the (tiring) selection process.