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I wonder what sparkled this? The lack of good ideas in submitted applications or you guys just wanted to be more involved, i.e. wanted to see your own vision of
by old-gregg 17y ago
I wonder what sparkled this? The lack of good ideas in submitted applications or you guys just wanted to be more involved, i.e. wanted to see your own vision of the future materialize in front of you?
I also wonder what happened to idea #2 on this list: http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html
Seemed like pikluk.com applied to solve precisely that (even before the list was published) but we got rejected, then exhausted our savings, burned out and just quietly returned to our day jobs, yet no YC-funded solution emerged up to date. Being rejected is one thing, but getting "Your idea is great, but we'll wait for someone with a better pedigree to work on it" message hurts much more.
- amichail 17y agoWhy not also add a link to "Startup Ideas" beside "Feature requests" so anyone can contribute ideas and vote on them?
- colins_pride 17y agoThis is one of those ideas that seems so obviously good after the fact that it just makes one marvel
- wyw 17y agoThis is a great idea. I've often wished that pg's original ideas article was updated more regularly but your suggestion would be a nice alternative to giving pg more work to do, especially given how poorly we pay him.
- pg 17y agoMore the latter: there are particular things we wish people would do. I don't think we've funded anyone to work on #2 yet. I don't remember pikluk.com, but the ideas on that list are deliberately vague. There are a lot of possible permutations, some good and some bad. If we didn't fund you, it wasn't necessarily (or even probably) because we were waiting for someone else to do it.
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- rams 17y ago"Your idea is great, but we'll wait for someone with a better pedigree to work on it" - Did the rejection letter/mail explicitly indicate that ? Or is that your own conclusion ?
- andreyf 17y agoBuilding pikluk.com on top of IE was a bit mistake, IMO. I assume it doesn't run on OSX, and is stuck on whatever version of IE you built it on...