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They seemed to trade quality as well. Its now a net negative signal for a company's success if they are accepted into YC.
by humansareok1 2y ago
They seemed to trade quality as well. Its now a net negative signal for a company's success if they are accepted into YC.
- stonethrowaway 2y agoYou’ll have to expand on this for us plebs. To whom is it a net negative signal?
- ToucanLoucan 2y agoI mean I can't speak for that commenter, but I hold any VC backed startup in suspicion for a good amount of time because if they can't reach the size demanded by their investors, which runs the gamut from ambitious-but-achievable all the way to not-in-my-or-your-lifetime, a perfectly profitable modestly sized business is almost bound to be shut down and it's services terminated with little drama, leaving behind potentially useless products, or yet another fucking ZIP file to add to the pile of the things I have yet to open up and sort into other mediums.
- dylan604 2y ago> if they can't reach the size demanded by their investors In this sense, how is YC any different from any other VC firm?
- ToucanLoucan 2y agoIt's not, which is probably why I said VC not YC.
- humansareok1 2y agoTo anyone with eyes? Job seekers looking for startups to join, investors looking for places to put money, etc. I'm sorry if your company got accepted into YC, better luck next time. At least you can hang out with the founders of... 100 AI-assisted Code Editors, 'The first Travel Credit Card for Gen Z', 'Starbucks memberships for restaurants', 'a video first food delivery app, tiktok meets doordash', and 'the operating system for vacation rentals'. Truly a staggering group of talent. Those are all real companies in W24 btw...
- blibble 2y agohave a look at this, it's hilarious https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?batch=F24&batch=S24&batch=W24 https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?batch=F24&batch=S24&ba... I expect "AI Nip Alert" to show up any day now
- coldcode 2y agoMany of these are "Use AI For Something" startups. A few seemed meaningful but most seem destined to fail.
- fisherjeff 2y agoNot going to name names, but so far my favorite has been “AI for [somewhat arcane process]”. I had no idea how “AI” could possibly be of use, so clicked through out of curiosity. Hilariously, it boiled down to “we occasionally use an LLM to email people for you.”
- devin 2y agohahahaha, wow! I really thought this was a joke list. That’s stunning.
- humansareok1 2y agoYeah not a joke. Straight from the W24 batch page... I'm sure these weren't even the most absurd.
- myrmidon 2y ago"100 AI assisted code editors" is not even an exaggeration. I checked, and over 300 (of ~500) 2024 YC startups have some sort of AI tag. I'm quite curious how the current AI hype is gonna end...
- Lionga 2y agoI was laughing thinking how you made up a list of the most stupid ideas. Just to be baffled they are really fucking there.
- bearjaws 2y agoA) Security is always an afterthought at YC companies - I know from firsthand experience. B) YC companies are risky to use, obviously we meme about people using IBM for "saftey", but there is an opposite side of that which is going with a seed stage company - it's very risky. C) Even if you are a happy customer, if you are too niche they will typically abandon you. I've been on the decision making side for this, sometimes your early customers don't fit your new market, so you have to let them down slowly.
- bpodgursky 2y agoI'm bearish on the giant YC classes but (C) is an entirely necessary evil at any successful startup anywhere.