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Amateur hour over there. I originally signed up because they were a YC backed startup. Thankfully I never got around to doing any actual transactions.
by bti 14y ago
Amateur hour over there. I originally signed up because they were a YC backed startup. Thankfully I never got around to doing any actual transactions.
- fyi80 14y agoYC is an investment fund and business networking program. It provides no technical base. Which is a bid silly, since (1) almost every YC-backed companty uses the the same technical infrastructure as many others, and (2) Paul Graham made his fortune building a self-service platform to build ecommerce websites just like YC business websites. Free YC startup idea: Build an ecommerce platform and tecnical management for hosting startups. There's no reason YC should be promoting this legend of "CS whiz kids" as "technical founders". Just set up a solid ecommerce platform, and take on YC founders with business ideas to run their business on the YC stack. The result will be much better websites, and a bunch of high-paying jobs for the engineers who can build quality sites. YC can be the next Yahoo Stores. Heck, Paul Graham can probably buy Yahoo Stores division that bought ViaWeb in the first place.