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Ask HN: what kind of ideas can get you into YCombinator?
- ig1 14y agoOnes which solve real pain points. But it's the wrong question to ask, YC heavily focuses on team over idea, the idea is a validation of the team as much anything else (i.e is the team smart and capable of thinking deeply about a space).
- vanwilder77 14y agoBut does it really matter if my idea is something not specifically SAAS?
- nayefc 14y agoNo, check out the current W13 batch. Not all are SaaS. Some are hardware. But they're real products that people want to use, and I'm assuming the founders are pretty bright and promising.
- keiferski 14y agoYC is more interested in people than ideas, but these might help: http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html http://paulgraham.com/ideas.html http://paulgraham.com/ideas.html
- argonaut 14y agoThe strength of the team matters 5x more than the idea. The evidence for this is the fact that YC let(s) in teams that have no idea (not sure if they do this anymore). That being said, having a "good" idea does help.