Re:Why YC went to DC
by serial_dev on Monday June 03, 2024 @04:21PM
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On the other hand, I can see how basically any product can have some useful features backed by AI. I never felt that with web3.
That’s because you don’t understand the value of a decentralized blockchain in a zero trust world! /s
Honestly, I think any person or organization that bought in to the blockchain hype should be barred from making any financial decisions of consequence. If they bought into a scam as obvious as the blockchain crap, they're clearly not capable of holding any real responsibilities.
Like the idea.
Let’s find those people and put their names into a non-permutable distributed blockchain database in the cloud with public access!
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Hypecasting is a nice word
Tbf I feel remote work really improved significantly in the past years, though I don't know if the contribution from those startups matters or not. Web3 and blockchain is a moot, there's little to no practical reason to have them.
AI though, will be very useful, at least a good one. Theoretically, AI can swim in a good ocean of company documentations and save time searching. They can help doctors diagnose a ct scan faster (if not already).
true but you have to participate at all costs in whatever's hot for engineers and consumers, and that is definitely AI
Re:Why YC went to DC
by password4321 on Monday June 03, 2024 @09:46PM
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Raise (this year: AI!) then pivot
Here is Michael and Dalton talking couple of weeks ago about how new technologies create new businesses.
Basically starting with the technology and then finding problems.
The very opposite of what YC has been promoting all these years.
2020 was remote work, 2021 was web3, now we have the big LLM boom.
Honestly it seems there’s a lot of advantages to “riding a wave” and a lot of advantages to being contrarian. But if raising money is your priority I do think you should ride the wave. Being contrarian sounds romantic, but don’t expect funding from people who disagree with you.
The most charitable thing I’d say about YCs AI focus is it’s hard to think of a startup idea that couldn’t benefit from AI in some way.