Launch YC: Optifye.ai – AI performance monitoring for factory workers

Some thoughts as a software engineer living in a country with quite strong workers' rights laws (not the US):

- Yuck.

- This is capitalism and, like it or not, I personally benefit from capitalism.

- When the capital comes from affluent countries and the labour comes from countries with weak labour laws, we get a bad situation where the workers are exploited.

- I need to up my game on purchasing from ethical clothing brands.

The launch video is absolutely disgusting

edit: it looks like they’ve now removed it, and yc removed their launch tweet

I do not understand how:

1) Someone actually thought this was a good idea

2) Someone actually built it

3) YC actually funded it

Why not frame things from the perspective of rewarding good performance? I am sure this will get bought by companies looking to squeeze their workers…and I will not be surprised if this leads to worse outcomes for staff and employers in the medium to long term.

The launch video was disgraceful.

This is getting HUGE exposure on Xwitter right now.

YC is backtracking on them and rightly so. I don't blame them, they probably pitched something relatively ok-ish; today's demo is just a disaster from every angle.

Incidentally, this also shows why 2020s YC is a different beast than 2010s YC, they don't really care about your startup, they don't even really know what is it about, its just a pure numbers game at this point.

Methaphorically, YC also optifye-d itself into what it is nowadays.