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We applied to YC many times Never got an interview Even when we had six figures of revenue pre-launch from the AI researchers who paid us for feature requests on the alpha When got coaching from former YC partner, discovered "Notes app" category gets u flagged for trash bin.
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Schools should publish a list of startups that are tried every year during student orientation. Would save a bunch of students a lot of heartache trying to recreate an "events near me", "match me with a fitness trainer" or "meet up with friends" app.
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Kidding aside, they’re set up to recognize certain patterns with a certain rate of false positives and negatives. At some point that pattern vein will run dry and they’ll either reorient or become irrelevant. All part of the great game.
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The question about Roam if you don’t fuck up is whether it will be a regular success or a category-defining pattern or an era-defining meta-pattern.
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The same thing happened to us. We got to interviews but no further. Someone told us after that they'd funded several website dev tool companies that had completely failed
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