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"i'm glad we're finally talking about this because the first time i met patrick collison he said "hey, nice to meet you, tell me about your startup" and then halfway through my pitch he waved over his guy silently a
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Human beings often perceive patterns and deliberate action, where systemic explanations would suffice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia A good example is popular discourse on 'elites'. You could percei
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I've done the reverse - I would recommend studying engineering, but I would not recommend the job market for physical engineering. I studied Engineering Science with Computer Science, did some Electronic Engineering before focusing on
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YC was a no-brainer value-add for us, even without this deal. It's still a no-brainer for any founder, regardless of batch size or remote vs in-person. This new deal simply cements that. Well done to the YC team.
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'Poverty spec' is an old joke colloquialism usually associated with Luxury cars, specced to the minimum price. Using the phrase now in this context can feel jarring. I think taste and sensibilities have changed - lots of old jokes
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Aside: I agree, but find phrases like 'poverty spec' a little distasteful. 'Low spec' is a pretty normal phrase that gets the point across.
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Agreed - we're running an experiment on Zapier integration and the callout mucked up the header. It's since been amended. The homepage bears the scars of a lot of experiments. In pitches, I have had VCs complain about the website
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There are many. A sample in alphabetical order - and by no means exhaustive: https://apify.com/ (YC F1) https://automatio.co/ https://axiom.ai/ (YC W21) https://extension.dev&#x2
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I look at no-code as evolving to produce a high-level, (often visual) Domain Specific Language, with abstractions suited only to the problem domain. Excel is the archetypal success-story, perhaps. It is ill-suited as a general purpose pro
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I really like your refined positioning and messaging. We were on the same YC cohort and I have to say, dendron didn't 'speak to me' during the batch. But looking at how you describe yourself now, I think 'yeah, I need th
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The word organic has some limited legitimacy as description for farming methods. The word I find most troubling is 'natural', often used in the same marketing. All agricultural produce is the product of domestication of a wild pla
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We were YC W21. Most of the value in YC comes from the network. We learn a lot from other founders, even if the industry is completely removed. Also, the batches are now large, but you're often grouped with similar companies during the
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+1 for tasting history. The host was furloughed by the Disney Channel during COVID, so used his time to focus on his side project. An example of COVID's creative destruction.
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When I see a number like $21 billion, I can't help but think of all the economic and social good from drugs being regulated, like Cannabis, Tobacco and Prostitution. That's a lot of taxation money lost, a lot of policing wasted, a
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We use notion increasingly extensively, and also use G Suite. It's a strange beast - you think it's for note-taking, but it's capable of so much more. It doesn't try to do the abstractions of the office productivity suit
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Unfortunately yes, I think the objections to Google and Amazon are based on harms to the world, not to me as the consumer. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29056196
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I agree, WhatsApp is (or was historically) a great product I got value from. Unfortunately I think Facebook's incentives will compromise the product's quality. It's why many move to signal and telegram.
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I think most people's objections to Google and Amazon are macro objections to harm their business does to the world, not the individual consumer. I shop on Amazon like I eat steaks. I get individual value out of Amazon and the steak,
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Google have their flaws (I never trust any new product of theirs will last), but on the whole, I am happy using their products and services. I have got enough value out of Google search, Gmail and Google docs over the years to make the pr
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I remember the Ceefax games. As a child, I got hooked on this quiz, 'Bamboozle!'. There were other quizes that had competitions with prizes. At the end, you had to call a premium rate phone line to guess a random number and win th
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To be clear, I wasn't implying it's working well. Just that financial statements have a legal framework and auditing system, whereas metrics don't even have that.
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It's harder (though not impossible) to lie about revenue as a public company when your accounts are audited annually. Online metrics aren't subject to the same level of scrutiny as standard financial statements. It's pretty c
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No code is moving into similar territory to programming languages, as each tool provides a DSL suited to particular problem domains and abstractions. Check out makerpad.co for some courses which amount to design patterns.
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The toxic culture of Instagram is not driven by teen girls, it's driven by a toxic mix of a powerful capitalist machine and social media. Sell the perfect lifesfyle and body. For the record - I believe in capitalism generally, I just t
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I love the idea of domain specific browsers. Congrats on shipping, will be monitoring this one!
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Also UK-based. The UK is culturally somewhere between the US and the EU in my experience. UK investors are less risk-averse than Germans, but still not quite the same as SF.
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My experience also correlates with this, raising in Europe and from YC. The European ecosystem is focused on well-understood business models, and is less likely to fund something disruptive and novel. It's probably epitomised by the Sa
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Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3996171
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Axiom.ai (YC W21) Is Hiring – UX Designer and Developer(workatastartup.com)
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Aside, but there seems to be a much higher level of collective cognitive dissonance with Michael Jackson, perhaps because of his stature in popular culture. I'm guilty of this myself - my brain sets a higher bar for evidence, perhaps u

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