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I'd just say it here, once and for all - YC startups suck
by helwr 15y ago
I'd just say it here, once and for all - YC startups suck
- walrus 15y agoYup, every last one of them :) I doubt you really stand behind that. Maybe you really mean, for example, that a majority of the YC startups make things that aren't useful to you.
- Mz 15y agoI get the impression I am missing some "in" joke. :-/
- krakensden 15y agoThere was a popular Bay Area band called Primus that used 'Primus sucks' as their catchphrase for a while. Perhaps it's a reference.
- walrus 15y agoThere's no in joke (I don't know helwr). My first sentence was meant to be sarcastic. I was encouraging helwr to explain his/her opinion, since saying "YC startups suck" without any further explanation doesn't really contribute anything.
- Mz 15y agoThey have quite high karma (as in "they are on the leader board") but their profile states nothing about them. I was assuming you knew something about them from their comment history. (I am sort of guessing they either were funded by YC or applied and got rejected or some such, but I don't really feel like doing some massive search of the site or combing through all their comments/posts to confirm my hunch.)
- thaumaturgy 15y agoThey have 919 submissions, the top 142 of which have between 11 and 252 points. They only have 206 comments by comparison; their second-highest-rated comment was a direct link to a pdf of Hacker Monthly #2.
- helwr 15y agoHN search is a bit out of sync, e.g. see the top result here: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=by%3Ahelwr+predator&start=0 http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=by%3Ahelwr+... and the actual link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403290 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403290
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