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A comment on Rejected Then Recruited: Our Journey into Y Combinator.

Re:Rejected Then Recruited: Our Journey into Y Combinator by plinkplonk on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @11:20PM (#18081928)
"The YC partner I met had the feedback that an online REPL is not really a startup -- it's just a fun toy -- and that instead, I should join another company building a superficially similar technology."

Interesting, especially since PG has stated that many a good company looks like "just a fun toy" in the beginning. I'd have thought that would be a heuristic YC folks keep in mind, and not use it to dismiss an idea.

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Re:Rejected Then Recruited: Our Journey into Y Combinator by amasad on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @11:44PM (#18082004)
Most YC partners do take this idea to heart. Lots of partners we talked to were excited by the fact that we're "easily dismissed by incumbents and extremely useful to outsiders".
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Re:Rejected Then Recruited: Our Journey into Y Combinator by plinkplonk on Thursday September 27, 2018 @01:40AM (#18082300)
that's great to hear! so it seems you just had the bad luck to stumble across an exception to the 'rule'.
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