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Y Combinator, Backer of Dropbox, Vaults from Experiment to Kingmaker

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Re: Y Combinator, Backer of Dropbox, Vaults from Experiment to Kingmaker

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Post by koolba »

jey wrote: post #3

Via outline.com: https://outline.com/VY5L3z

While I love the utility of it, how the hell is that website legal? It’s stated purpose is to violate copyright law?!

From the page trailer:

> Outline is a free service that makes websites more readable. We remove the clutter, like ads, related links, and comments—so you can read comfortably.

Re: Y Combinator, Backer of Dropbox, Vaults from Experiment to Kingmaker

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Post by sytse »

enitihas wrote: post #6

"Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel." - It says below the image. Isn't he the CEO of the accelerator program and not whole of YC?

Correct. But I think the main program is called Y Combinator and the whole is called YC Group, Sam Altman is the CEO of that.

Re: Y Combinator, Backer of Dropbox, Vaults from Experiment to Kingmaker

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Post by lallysingh »

koolba wrote: post #11
jey wrote: post #3

Via outline.com: https://outline.com/VY5L3z

While I love the utility of it, how the hell is that website legal? It’s stated purpose is to violate copyright law?! From the page trailer: > Outline is a free service that makes websites more readable. We remove the clutter, like ads, related links, and comments—so you can read comfortably.

From the latency, it looks like it doesn't cache. So it's literally transformative. If that matters, I don't know.

Re: Y Combinator, Backer of Dropbox, Vaults from Experiment to Kingmaker

#14

Post by fsniper »

koolba wrote: post #11
jey wrote: post #3

Via outline.com: https://outline.com/VY5L3z

While I love the utility of it, how the hell is that website legal? It’s stated purpose is to violate copyright law?! From the page trailer: > Outline is a free service that makes websites more readable. We remove the clutter, like ads, related links, and comments—so you can read comfortably.

It's not the only service that does this. Even browsers have out of the box support for some of them.

Re: Y Combinator, Backer of Dropbox, Vaults from Experiment to Kingmaker

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Post by drharby »

dopeboy wrote: post #7

Hey guys, this wasn't supposed to be on the front page. We (Manish, Zach, Kaya, and Lucas) are at the YC hackathon taking place right now. We're building an app that is like MoviePass for different publications. I posted this link here because FB, Google, etc bypass WSJ paywalls but HN doesn't (which we need for our demo).

"Oops"

That is really funny. Real life writes better material for Silicon Valley.

Re: Y Combinator, Backer of Dropbox, Vaults from Experiment to Kingmaker

#16

Post by godzillabrennus »

koolba wrote: post #11
jey wrote: post #3

Via outline.com: https://outline.com/VY5L3z

While I love the utility of it, how the hell is that website legal? It’s stated purpose is to violate copyright law?! From the page trailer: > Outline is a free service that makes websites more readable. We remove the clutter, like ads, related links, and comments—so you can read comfortably.

I doubt it’s legs but it’s useful so it’ll get traction and then get sued.

Re: Y Combinator, Backer of Dropbox, Vaults from Experiment to Kingmaker

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Post by briandear »

koolba wrote: post #11
jey wrote: post #3

Via outline.com: https://outline.com/VY5L3z

While I love the utility of it, how the hell is that website legal? It’s stated purpose is to violate copyright law?! From the page trailer: > Outline is a free service that makes websites more readable. We remove the clutter, like ads, related links, and comments—so you can read comfortably.

I always wonder: how are journalists supposed to get paid when people steal their content?

Re: Y Combinator, Backer of Dropbox, Vaults from Experiment to Kingmaker

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Post by ellisv »

HHalvi wrote: post #5

I don't know if it's a popular opinion to hold but YC has always been a kingmaker from the start. Only when Dropbox filed an IPO and is now worth a bazzilion dollars in the public market most of the media has caught up to their work. To the entire team at YC keep going there are phenomenal startups to come :)

In my opinion YC had some good wins early on but now, especially as the cohorts have gotten much larger, it’s not clear if they’re still “kingmakers”. It would be more impressive if their cohorts were still very small and had a high success rate (however you measure success).

Re: Y Combinator, Backer of Dropbox, Vaults from Experiment to Kingmaker

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Post by nothrabannosir »

fsniper wrote: post #14
koolba wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I love the utility of it, how the hell is that website legal? It’s stated purpose is to violate copyright law?! From the page trailer: > Outline is a free service that makes websites more readable. We remove the clutter, like ads, related links, and comments—so you can read comfortably.

It's not the only service that does this. Even browsers have out of the box support for some of them.

Browsers don’t redistribute the content. That’s a crucial difference, much like you can video tape a broadcast and fast forward through the ads at home, but not if you run a pub.
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