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Re:Y Combinator Summer 2013 Demo Day, Batch 3 by dxhdr on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @03:01AM (#6248638)
Most of these websites look nearly identical (twitter bootstrap anyone?), across all three batches. As a visual learner and someone who is (unfortunately) inclined to judge a book by its cover, it's hard for me to get excited about any of these companies by visiting their sites. Frankly they look generic. The cynical part of me wonders if these companies afraid of taking risks and doing something bold with their online presentation.

Also looking forward to the next era of web company names -- let's call it post-skeunameism (Crowdery and Apptimize I'm looking at you). This batch has actually been much improved in that regard from what I remember over the past few years.

Re:Y Combinator Summer 2013 Demo Day, Batch 3 by paulrademacher on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @03:28AM (#6248710)
What "risk" should a new company incur with the landing page? Slick design won't get you return users, if the meat of the product isn't there.