Comment by phendrenad2

> they got funded by YC with nothing more than a codebase copied from another YC-backed company. This shows that (1) YC is willing to fund just about anything,

I don't see it that way. This is NOT the first time YC has funded startups that are in direct competition. It seems to me that having multiple companies with the same product makes your net larger for customer acquisition, and the startups can always merge later.