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How is it YC's fault the consumer apps failed to raise a Series A? I personally have a consumer AI product that had 3 competitors get into YC, and they just di
by BoorishBears 1y ago
How is it YC's fault the consumer apps failed to raise a Series A?
I personally have a consumer AI product that had 3 competitors get into YC, and they just didn't perform very well:
- One has so little distribution the only sign of life in the last 3 months was that they updated their landing page.
- Another released a disappointing app, didn't really iterate on it, and eventually pivoted into being a legal AI answering machine after that flopped.
- The third took down their app shortly after YC and pivoted to a content creation site for YT channels... then randomly let their site start going down, ignoring the customers, and doesn't seem to be doing anything anymore.
Meanwhile some competitors that didn't get into YC are now at 7 figure MRR (I'm at a measly 5 figure MRR). So it's not like the space these apps were in is as disastrous as these comments are making them out to be: YC took a chance and unfortunately these teams just weren't the right teams.