Reminds me of my comment about an year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5648760 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5648760 (1) Quality of applicati

Reminds me of my comment about an year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5648760 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5648760 (1) Quality of applications, as in number of people who can write and talk really well, have gone up and the (2) number of applications have gone up; means the gate is even more crowded than ever before. So the pressure to dole out a silkier YC application next time will go up. Obviously the outcome of this cycle is that the focus of the entire selection ruckus will move towards "best of best applications written in English" and not really start-ups (which look/are bad) but have the potential to go on to become unicorns/home runs. Meanwhile, this pressure will also give rise to energetic backbenchers. A psychology for those who feel cheated by fate to go after and kill it outside of the incubator loop. Good luck YC, no-YC both!