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I just looked at the winter class and I agree a lot of them look like duds. It definitely dilutes the brand if your startup is one of ~150 and almost all the ot
by opportune 6y ago
I just looked at the winter class and I agree a lot of them look like duds. It definitely dilutes the brand if your startup is one of ~150 and almost all the others are just X for Y
From your description, wanting to be the SME, early engineer, substantial equity - maybe you would be better off as a founder?
- dang 6y agoYou guys need to understand that people have been saying things like "a lot of them look like duds" and "almost all the others are just X for Y" literally, and continuously, since YC got started.
- dencodev 6y agoFamously dropbox was ridiculed on HN
- dang 6y agoYes, although I do think the user who posted that comment has gotten a bit of a bum rap over the years - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23229196 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23229196
- TACIXAT 6y agoI do not think they are duds, quite the opposite, they look like profitable ideas. Just incredibly boring to work on. In the first two pages of workatastartup it is 90% web. There were two data science roles and one embedded role. I think the domain of profitable ideas is a lot larger than what Typescript/React can represent.
- opportune 6y agoI believe you, but that’s how many of these startups are described even at ycombinator.com/companies when I filtered by W20