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You mean this isn't a website for lambda calculus enthusiasts?
Wait... This is not lambda-the-ultimate? Where am I?
not so loud, you're gonna hug it to death
Was Y Combinator worth it?
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Re: Was Y Combinator worth it?
#32>So, for us YC was a no-brainer. Saved you a click. If the general consensus is that YC is worth it, then why bother publish something to state the obvious. I'd be more interested in cases or scenarios where the founders felt YC wasn't worth it, which I believe would be very low or non-existent.
the rationale is relevant. if you are interested in the inverse cases, you look at the reasons and assume the opposite.
Re: Was Y Combinator worth it?
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Isn’t it just like… a couple of servers? As in, entirely fundable by one person who could afford the time to moderate.
many, many, many years
It's a rounding error in some of the budgets that startups deal with. It becomes closer to the situation with the Long Now, which is a clock to last 10,000 years. With LLMs, even the moderation becomes an fixture in the project that can endure. With Solar and a GPU and some Internet.
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thats what i love about hn. i sometimes think yc is just a front to secure payment for hn servers for many many years.
Isn’t it just like… a couple of servers? As in, entirely fundable by one person who could afford the time to moderate.
Re: Was Y Combinator worth it?
#35Re: Was Y Combinator worth it?
#36>So, for us YC was a no-brainer. Saved you a click. If the general consensus is that YC is worth it, then why bother publish something to state the obvious. I'd be more interested in cases or scenarios where the founders felt YC wasn't worth it, which I believe would be very low or non-existent.
> which I believe would be very low or non-existent
Only because your sample size are people who've attended YC.
Ask all startups whether they think YC is worth it and the percentage will be significantly higher. Because if you're an experienced founder then the benefits versus dilution equation will be far different than someone who is straight out of college.
Re: Was Y Combinator worth it?
#37Given it’s a corporate blog and YC will still be on the cap, what’s the point of the leading question?
Re: Was Y Combinator worth it?
#38You know, I've been reading Hacker News for god-knows-how-long, and it never occurred to me to look up what Y Combinator even was.
Same!
Re: Was Y Combinator worth it?
#39What a curious product: CSV import as a service (or hosted on premise). Would love to know where they pivoted from (according to the blog post).
There's so much more to CSV file import than just uploading and parsing - service like this can become backbone of any enterprise data exchange pipeline. For real mission critical use cases you need features like being able to ingest multiple gigabyte sized files reliably, quickly revert the import or switch to a specific version, detecting errors and recovering from partially corrupted files, detecting the new version is available, possibly importing just changes, publishing metrics on imported files to observability platforms, alerting if anything goes wrong...
If CSV import is not enough of a product (I believe it is) you can add exporting functionality (e.g. export this table to CSV and deliver to SFTP exactly once, but make sure to handle target downtimes) and you have an "Enterprise File Gateway" that could reduce development costs in many companies.
Re: Was Y Combinator worth it?
#40What a curious product: CSV import as a service (or hosted on premise). Would love to know where they pivoted from (according to the blog post).
Not all that curious... https://flatfile.com If you're building a vertical SaaS and want to support import from a file, and don't want to spend time reinventing the wheel, this could be a big win. This would let new users bring in existing data from another SaaS (that supports CSV export) or where the incumbent is likely to be Excel. The development time it would take to make something like this solid, usable, and fl…
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