I know techcrunch is(are) full of shit and Arrington is on vacation, but their posts aren't even spell-checked anymore? teh, athough, sItes, Wrodpress?
I've been wondering for a while - why doesn't Y-combinator take in more B2B business ideas?<p>It's much easier to capitalise, the market (defined as customers willing to pay you) is huge, and the products out there are crap.<p>Does Y-combinator just not believe in the B2B market, are none of the applications in this area, or what? I'm genuinely puzzled.
The business model of "We are going to create X for Y", where X is a service like YouTube, never works. After viewing the intro video I saw that you can do things like create private communities and invite people to join, and I thought that this is the same way I share photos with the family on flickr. But wait, doesn't flickr also support video? And so does Facebook, and I am sure there are others.<p>Maybe I am just misunderstanding their business model, but I don't see the value of this service.
Ive spent a fair while scouring the site and yet to find any form of pricing options for hosting on my own domain, the guys definitely need a lot more call to action points.<p>Ill just have to go about it the old fashioned way of emailing the guys there, shame as I would probably liked to read up on the pricing and possibly sign at that point having seen the features.
Somehow I remembered seeing fliggo repeatedly submitted on reddit with content taken from YouTube, and ended up associating it with blogspam. This must have been before it went YC. It looks quite different now, but how close was my impression?
Letting users customize the CSS seems like a great idea. When I used MySpace I really missed the ability to do this without resorting to really flaky hacks.