Comment by pj_mukh
1 year ago
"did some clunky work on it. That was their entry to YC"
For more context, YC doesn't judge your code, never has. It was never a code quality competition. Orthogonally, they do judge the results (user metrics).
1 year ago
"did some clunky work on it. That was their entry to YC"
For more context, YC doesn't judge your code, never has. It was never a code quality competition. Orthogonally, they do judge the results (user metrics).
>For more context, YC doesn't judge your code, never has. It was never a code quality competition.
it shows
Yea it does! [1].
[1]: https://jaredheyman.medium.com/on-the-176-annual-return-of-a...
Yeah, but they used to care about your moat and “Did some easily replicable work on a product anyone can duplicate.” ain’t it.
Did they? YC regularly funded competitors. This was always true. Fundamentally, YC is betting on founders. They're optimizing for founders who can move fast enough to find a moat before they die, that's it.
They fund competitors because most YC companies usually pivot out anyway.