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Its also pretty telling how quickly this is getting flagged off the front page!
46 minutes later and it’s still on the front page. Does that change what you consider “telling” or not?
Edit: I should also note it is not on the front page any more
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Did you miss this bit above?: > As a female founder, having my app rejected by YC with this product, it just makes me angry.
I did miss it, thank you You can still apply multiple times after getting rejected. There’s plenty of stories of companies/founders that only got into YC after several rejections To be honest, if I were in their situation I wouldn’t apply again, but it could be a good move regardless
Very sorry to hear this. Did you have any copyright to the apis or the code? Or even a ToS on your slack channel? IANAL so wouldn't hurt to speak to a lawyer. Also sorry I am not good reading the signals - why would being a female founder make you angrier than a non female founder? Id be angry as F too if a clone of my hard work appeared out of no where!
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> Did you have any copyright to the apis or the code? Any code that's written from scratch is automatically assigned copyright to the creator or their employer at the time of creation. API's are probably considered copyrighted by the courts but getting any kind of remedy for that will be exceedingly difficult after Google vs. Oracle. > Id be angry as F too if a clone of my hard work appeared out of no where! This hap…
Yeah if the folks somehow copied code (hacking etc) there may be some grounds. Again this is black belt legal stuff. You beat me to it - especially after that whole GvsO case APIs getting copyright is also very tricky it feels to me. > This happens literally all the time. I wouldn't recommend someone be a founder if this upsets them. No half-decent innovation isn't instantly cloned by 10 fly-by-night copycats and mul…
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Pretty wild how much "just execute better" posts there are, one wonders if its the common response to a situation like this, from this community, and what that says about trustworthiness in general of YC "founder" types!
YC isn't responsible for the actions of the founders of every start-up that they fund. Even worse: after funding them they have very limited ability to influence the companies they funded, after all, YC has a small minority stake and founders could just ignore them. Obviously YC can cut them off from further capital and blackball them but that may not be sufficient.
What does you being female have to do with the issue at hand?
That YC is advertising itself as 'female founder friendly' and to fund a bunch of - presumably, too little data - guys to copy the product of a female applicant that got rejected would be a strong move in the wrong direction. But: since the OP doesn't supply any information at all all you can do is speculate about whether or not that is what happened.
Its also pretty telling how quickly this is getting flagged off the front page!
Would you like more of the front page to be people lobbing vague allegations at YC funded companies? The only reason it isn't flagged to death is because they make a point of staying out of YC stuff, it's definitely not front page material.
Looks like the company in question is Rehook.ai https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rehook-ai
The APIs look fairly different to me from a brief look through the docs. Apart from both using some resource names like 'Campaigns' and 'Customers' that you'd expect any platform in this space to use, most of the actual endpoints seem to be quite different.
Same with the overall set of features. There are some features in common, but also features on both sides that aren't shared. Website design and copy is totally different.
It seems like OP is unhappy that a competitor is funded by YC and did competitive research in their public community Slack channel. I get that, but I see no evidence that anything was directly copied. It doesn't seem fair to tarnish the reputation of Rehook's founders without evidence to back it up. It's not wrong or illegal to build a competitor to an existing product.
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Would you like more of the front page to be people lobbing vague allegations at YC funded companies? The only reason it isn't flagged to death is because they make a point of staying out of YC stuff, it's definitely not front page material.
the idea that this forum "makes a point of staying out of YC stuff" is absurd, aside from the money, this site literally advertises for YC companies, on top of many other examples.
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It's very fair: YC bills itself as 'female founder friendly', if it turns out that you can't safely apply without your data leaking through to would be competitors that would be a serious problem. Note that there is zero proof for such a scenario but it is kind of odd that the OP applied there and that a YC backed company is now copying their business. At a minimum you'd expect YC to state very clearly that such a th…