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If the YC-adjacent scene stopped funding boring incremental startups maybe we'd dig our way out of the Great Stagnation. Gumroad is something that should be a
by treelovinhippie 5y ago
If the YC-adjacent scene stopped funding boring incremental startups maybe we'd dig our way out of the Great Stagnation.
Gumroad is something that should be a 0% fee opensource developer component, not an entire company.
The YC Facebook feed has been depressing lately: $6M funding for one of those links-on-a-page startups, $50M funding for a startup that wants to sell Pokemon cards on a livestream. The VCs are fuelling stagnation by funding these boring inconsequential projects.
- halfmatthalfcat 5y agoJust look at the Show HN - YC batch companies, none of them are doing anything remotely groundbreaking or risky. A ton of them are solving minor workflow problems trying to skim shit off the top.
- treelovinhippie 5y agoAlas the HN echo-chamber ensures these points are pushed out of the bubble. Why is YC funding this sort of shit? https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/24/beacons-seed-round-creator-profiles https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/24/beacons-seed-round-creator...
- sebmellen 5y agoUnfortunate that you're being downvoted for raising cogent points. I do think companies like Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, Ginko Bioworks, etc. are doing pretty neat stuff. Even if these businesses don't seem groundbreaking, they clearly are, somehow. But the recent batches of YC startups seem disappointingly... competitive. As in the Thiel-ian sense of not doing much fundamentally different from other players in the market. I wonder if this could be attributed to Paul Graham stepping back from the front lines.