I know! I know!<p>Step 1. They'll announce that Facebook is going to invest in any Y Combinator companies that want to make their products work well with Facebook.<p>Step 2. They'll announce that Facebook will pre-acquire any Y Combinator companies without going through the trouble of demo day, angel investment, etc.<p>Step 3. Getting accepted to Y Combinator will mean automatically being acquired by Facebook. All Y Combinator founders will have guaranteed jobs at Facebook with 4 year vesting lockup.<p>Step 4. Paul and Jessica realize that there's no glory in being Facebook's unpaid campus recruiters, but unfortunately, their own vesting deal will require them to hang around pretending to be friends with Mark Zuckerberg for another 13 months.
Meh, personally I dislike the idea of building a business on top of someone else's platform. Facebook/Twitter/etc are good ways to reach out to people and spread your message, but it's too easy for them to block you or reimplement your idea.
Some investitors complained at Angelconf 2010, or maybe on a press coverage of it (don't really remember), about angels financing Facebook's expensive "selection program" (buying startups as a means of hiring people). Wonder how this will be seen those who made such claims...
A quick question: Is instant personalization just removing a click that is otherwise required by an application to access all this data? Is there any new data that I can't access via the api, that is coming here.<p>Maybe devs who work with FB connect more often can clarify.. Thanks in advance.
Well, I guess that answers this question:<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1172025" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1172025</a><p>;)<p>Joking aside, this is an interesting development, it means that anybody looking to disrupt FB or something affiliated with FB is now going to avoid applying to YC unless they intend do be acquired.
Is HN soon going to act as the product development group of the big guns like google, facebook? Or maybe pg has convinced facebook to port over to arc ?
This sounds great for YC startups that are building anything married to facebook. Also, really great move by facebook, they get a pre-approved pool of third parties to expand their world of facebook. It sounds like a win-win.<p>Unless facebook would like to put their fingers all over YC's, including those that aren't related to facebook in any way - e.g. "Pg says we MUST have facebook integration like this, we have this document we got from facebook on how and what to put into our product. Do it bro - he'll shoot us in the face. Here he comes, I can hear the lambda keychain. Just do it!".
I can't be the only one that finds this makes YC less attractive. I looked at YC as mentoring and a leg up for interesting ideas, not a sausage factory for Facebook Apps.
I hope this means more improvements to the FB platform. Has anyone else tried to build a product exclusively on top of the new Graph API yet?<p>Curious if anyone else has the same opinions that I do - not mature enough to trust just yet...