There are so many startups that are getting funded by YC of which "I had the idea (first)". Of course I could think of the idea but this truly shows that the nitty gritty part is actually building the dream instead of coming up with an idea. On the bright side, if you ever find one of your own ideas or a derivative thereof being funded try to see it as market validation and get to work!
Startups that launched at Y Combinator’s S18 Demo Day 2
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#12I'm not in SV, and very much outside the startup community in the rest of the world these days, especially since I no longer work in a coworking space.
I have to say, some of these legitimately look like parodies, like something out of the Silicon Valley TV show. Emojer cannot be a legitimate company with real funding. It just can't.
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#13Monetizing game modding?! Nooo
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#14I'm not in SV, and very much outside the startup community in the rest of the world these days, especially since I no longer work in a coworking space. I have to say, some of these legitimately look like parodies, like something out of the Silicon Valley TV show. Emojer cannot be a legitimate company with real funding. It just can't.
Emojer cannot be a legitimate company with real funding.
There's a very clear exit route to selling to a phone manufacturer that wants to add more "fun" functionality to its camera app..
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#15I am curious what it is exactly the process of this Demo Day?
Is the normal flow: pitching for a couple of minutes, then Q&A and then at the final day a decision?
If someone who participated could share, that will be great!
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#16Anima seems really cool and ambitious; modernizing design code seems like an obvious necessity and next step to modernize workflows in the front-end. My prediction would be that, if successful, this would empower designers and commoditize front end developers (or optimistically, let them focus on more complex logic) Good luck to the team.
Anima does seem really great. As a front-end dev seeing this stuff makes me happy and slightly anxious for the future. On one hand, styling basic marketing sites manually is boring and I would happily use this if it fits easily into my work flow. On the other, I hope it doesn't start making complex React apps soon or I'm in trouble :)
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#17There are some cringe worthy ones, but also a couple which I think are suprisingly good. I think ShopWith is brilliant (although I expect HN is not the audience to discuss this with).
Apps like Shopwith are built with limited social media engagement in mind. In this case the engagement seems to be - sell stuff to people. There is another called Stardust which has videos "but only "reaction videos" and reviews".
While it seems like specialized social media apps like these are a natural progression from more generic tools like Facebook, Twitter etc, I am not too sure. Most of social media has been taken over by bots. But twitter, fb etc do have some incentive to try and root the bots. In comparison these apps are made specifically for bot based engagement.
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#18There are so many startups that are getting funded by YC of which "I had the idea (first)". Of course I could think of the idea but this truly shows that the nitty gritty part is actually building the dream instead of coming up with an idea. On the bright side, if you ever find one of your own ideas or a derivative thereof being funded try to see it as market validation and get to work!
There's one startup on the list where I've had the idea, done some non-trivial work towards it in very garage-ey conditions, and applied to yc for it, and failed to get in. Still looking for funding. Oh well.
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#19I have been reading YC lists for so many years. And this list has set a record for number of facepalms. Companies like Papa are stuff of nightmares. While others like AnchorUSD, SparkSwap etc seem like an attempt to ride a wave which was been gone for long.
To me this seems like the best list in years. More stuff that’s early stage and somewhat whimsical again, albeit run by ex-FAANG employees instead of college kids. The last couple years have seemed heavier on more prosaic dtc stuff.
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