That's disappointing. I had guessed they might be, but was hoping they were not, because they commented below "(1) We reached out directly to a handful of peopl

That's disappointing. I had guessed they might be, but was hoping they were not, because they commented below "(1) We reached out directly to a handful of people that we admired and a number of them were nice enough to take the time to sign up." I think this is dishonest, and even makes me question the credibility of some of the other occasional posts that come up on the front page. Although I can understand why they are not mentioning YC, something about this makes me uncomfortable, unlike other YC launch announcements on Hacker News.