Comment by kshri24

Agree completely. That entire PeerAI BS put a really bad taste in my mouth w.r.t YC. It is fine to fund Companies that might create products with their own sweat/labor which might compete with their existing portfolio companies. That is healthy competition. But what happened here is not that!

If I fork a popular repository on GitHub, say Plausible, change the name of the product and then apply to YC, you are telling me I have a non-zero chance of getting selected if I just come up with a better business plan than the Plausible team? WTAF? That is horrible! Where are the standards here?

And no YC cannot hide behind the "You choose a wrong License" argument. That is legal BS and does not apply to TRUST built between Investors and Founders.

This is serious credibility damage to YC.

Disgusted.