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YC has not lost its way: launching Zoom from your cal is too much work
- sharemywin 6y agoSo, I'm confused you rebuilt the product for a YC company in one blog post and you think their company has enough of a differentiator to launch a company?
- hwillmott 6y agoI don't know if a single button to join your Zoom meeting is enough value to justify an entire company, but there's a niche to be filled in smoothing over those inefficient parts of your remote workflow.
- aejae 6y agoAge old question: What's a feature and what's a company? Many software questions start as "features" that an incumbent could have built. The question is whether they break out before the incumbent realizes the value. https://9to5mac.com/2018/01/11/dropbox-ipo/ https://9to5mac.com/2018/01/11/dropbox-ipo/
- jxf 6y agoThere's a nonzero chance this is another Dropbox. "Why would anyone pay for a taskbar widget that's just rsync?", wrote some folks in 2007 (right here on HN! [0]). But people derive all kinds of value from the right context in the right place at the right time. Small things can have big, compounding value — and eventually become indispensable. Hopefully, this post will make me look smart in about 10 years or so. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224