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Ask HN: Pick startups for YC to fund

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Re: Ask HN: Pick startups for YC to fund

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Post by dang »

chroem- wrote: post #230
dang wrote: post #228

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean by the main index? There isn't one yet that's specifically for Apply HN posts, but there should be soon.

When I submitted it, it showed up under the "new" tab, but when I went to the front page of HN I couldn't find it no matter how many pages I went back, despite the fact that it was newer and had more points than other Apply HN submissions which were being displayed. Perhaps I just missed it?

It would have appeared under /ask, but not necessarily on the front pages because those have an internal point threshold before they show up.

Once we get the /apply page up, they'll be there instead of on /ask. I'm hoping to get that done tomorrow.

Re: Ask HN: Pick startups for YC to fund

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Post by dang »

ausjke wrote: post #231

How much will the YC fund be normally? Will someone be concerned to disclose the product he/she is building here when stealth mode is preferred?

Not sure I understand your question, but it sounds like https://fellowship.ycombinator.com/faq/ might have the answer.

Re: Ask HN: Pick startups for YC to fund

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Post by dang »

rebootthesystem wrote: post #236

OK, I'll be the one asking this question: Are you planning on compensating the people who participate in this experiment in any way. Here's the point: YC will be receiving a massive amount of help in filtering and vetting dozens or hundreds of potential companies to fund. Once funded, they might fail but they can also be huge successes. YC stands to make millions, tens or hundreds of millions (or better if the starts…

Someone beat you to it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11442018.

Re: Ask HN: Pick startups for YC to fund

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Post by NicoJuicy »

I think HackerNews itselve should mostly fund startups like Sendy. Eg. Have a Reseller-option ( or brands option) so you can manage stuff for clients, others and you can self host it. This adds a huge market of technical people that can create wealth for their own

That is a totally different approach then the "cloud apps" that get funded through YC or other investors, yet it supports the same "sort/type of apps".

It should require some technical experience ( i believe HN in it's core is still for technical people)

It would be interesting to see what reselling does for bootstrapping a startup ( faster sales because more brands/people can resell it ?)

Benefits, we can hack our way through the code :)

Re: Ask HN: Pick startups for YC to fund

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Post by avip »

jdp23 wrote: post #70

Interesting idea, and kudos to you for kicking off the discussions to refine the approach - and for the "be nice" rule, which I think is very important here. A question: What are the situations where you think it will benefit people more to go the open route than applying directly? One way of thinking about it is advantages of "Apply HN": getting significant calibration and feedback on an idea that improves it whethe…

One useful outcome is to vastly boost your chances of finding similar/identical startup/product/company/service/OS project already in existence.

Re: Ask HN: Pick startups for YC to fund

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Post by viviennelee »

Curious -- Are Apply HN threads only meant for existing HN users to comment/upvote? I'd be more interested in this if it were condoned and encouraged to have my startup's existing userbase upvote and post comments about why they love the product. My typical user is not a HN user. I know it can be done anyway, but if it's viewed as "gaming" the system I wouldn't want to do that.

Re: Ask HN: Pick startups for YC to fund

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Post by aarkay »

Just read through a bunch of Apply HN's (~90) and realized how important it is for startups to clearly tell what their company does in the first sentence.

Even though many of the YC partners have mentioned the importance of this, I could feel the pain of reading through the first paragraph and not being able to picture anything about the company in my head. Might be a good strategy to stick in a summary of your startup in the apply hn corpus and ask close friends to see if they understand and get excited by the idea before applying to YC.

Another thing I noticed was how biased I was towards ideas which addressed problems I have had. So hopefully Apply HN will help YC look into companies which are catering to completely different industries and sets of problems which they haven't experienced.

This is a great experiment !

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