nice but 99% of what YC cares about is uni and past big tech companies.
they stopped betting on underdogs a while ago. esp when there's a wave of grads rn that isn't getting picked up by big tech. I keep on seeing good ideas rejected and slop accepted
Had this saved my notes:
reddit.com/r/devops/comme… - "Had Prometheus/Grafana at a previous job and it was lovely. Now I'm at a company with datadog and it's awfulllll. (We have a very large spend with them too)"
Nah, I've seen 2 founders skip basic research and try to push a dead idea in a market for years
One guy ik spent 100k into a dev agency 2y back, they made a buggy product. He had to shelve it and start from scratch, made better progress but still 0 users now. He hasn't gotten
Agreed. Or if you guys are online, then a regular game night. In second year of uni, I played "among us" weekly with a group of guys. Casually chatting and gaming was a great way to bond.
When I joined my current project, the nextjs deployment was on ecs and undocumented. env variables were stored in a s3 file, which if you changed and redeployed, didn't reflect on the actual deployment for some reason
Switched everything to gcp cloud run. Smooth sailing since.
YC overindexes on uni and past big tech companies. I said this in reply to a F25 founder's tweet last week. garry replied to me saying "I dedicate my life to proving you wrong."
yet the data shows that founders from ivies went from making up 15.4% in W24 to 27.1% in the X25
america's skilled immigration system is broken, there is no straightfoward path to citizenship. my dad barely got a green card through work, which got me one as well.
canada does it much better. points based, predictable system.