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You can also say the same about any batch: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?batch=W12 https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?batch=W12 Lots of payment app

• Animats 5y ago
  Those things were newer then. By now, most of the easy and highly profitable things you can start doing for $500K have been tried. The Web opened up a big range of possibilities. Most of them have been done. Smartphones opened up more. Most of them have been done. These little startups mostly rode on the coattails of the previous New Big Thing. But there is no current New Big Thing ecosystem. The last four or so attempts have flopped. Now, there are big expensive things to do. Electric car manufacturing. Rare earth mining. Wind farms. Vaccine development. Wafer fabs. But those all have a big price of entry and established entrants.