There appears to be a recent trend of YC companies being increasingly "meta" plays. The increasing number of "startups for startups" worries me, it's a leverage against the success of startups. It will increase the upward and downward slope of the startup market. Leverage leads to bubbles, and bubbles burst Note: This product looks great, I will probably use it, my comment is not intended to disparage taloflow specif…
It's actually quite ridiculous, I actually thought YC is starting to feel like a pyramid scheme. I took a look at the recent batches of YC companies and more than 70% of them seemed to be of the "meta" type, startups selling to startups. Of course these companies do well initially being able to tap into YC's huge community of startups. That doesn't mean they provide fundamental value to the economy, they're just slos…
Re: Launch HN: Taloflow (YC W21) – Find the top cloud or dev tools for your use case
#21It's much lower hanging fruit than say developing an embedded hardware device that does something novel (and most likely more useful). Why not just aggregate some data about _other_ services and run machine learning.