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Why did 30-year-old former Microsoft engineers apply to YC?

28 点作者 amitutk大约 11 年前

9 条评论

flyinglizard大约 11 年前
I don&#x27;t like doing this because I&#x27;m a founder too and, well, &quot;you don&#x27;t shit where you eat&quot; - you don&#x27;t go and pass judgement about the ventures of others because you don&#x27;t want to be in their spot yourself.<p>Nevertheless, I couldn&#x27;t help but notice their landing page reeks of buzzword laden hustle and nothing more. This, to me, is not a legitimate venture, or at least not presented as such.<p>1. The service doesn&#x27;t seem to exist;<p>2. The landing page textual content is badly made and badly spelled, which makes you question the capabilities and efforts of the team behind it;<p>3. They have this slider that name drops companies they have nothing to do with (AirBnB, CoffeeTable etc) with some headline stats and icons, and slides out of your way just before you begin to read the smaller print, which is about how these companies improved business metrics using push notifications. It has nothing to do with <i>their</i> product whatsoever. But you wouldn&#x27;t think that on first glance, as they deliberately made it look like customer testimonials. This to me is a huge red flag;<p>4. They have a $599 recommended plan which is way above what SaaS MVPs usually aim for;<p>5. Microsoft employs ~100k people worldwide. Being a Microsoft employee is completely meaningless in this context, and I feel is only used to lend them credibility in light of points #1-#4.<p>There&#x27;s a very fine line between MVP, hustling and outright scamming. I feel they went too far. I&#x27;m sorry if I hurt someone&#x27;s feelings but I doubt this is YC material.
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daviding大约 11 年前
Good luck. As constructive criticism of the headline, my mind fleetingly tried to parse what a &#x27;yo&#x27; engineer was (and a Microsoft one at that), and why 30 of them had applied for YC. :)
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kgb-11大约 11 年前
note to founders, your landing page has several typos. the headline is the most glaring one.
lukasm大约 11 年前
&quot;Do not have network intros to YC-Partners&quot; that got me thinking what are my odds of getting in. pg once said &quot;your chances are either very high or very low&quot;. No intros. Haven&#x27;t co-founder a successful startup in the past. Haven&#x27;t worked for FB. I&#x27;m from &quot;middle of nowhere&quot;.
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m0g大约 11 年前
Please don&#x27;t use caps meaninglessly. This blog is awfully hard to read.
vqc大约 11 年前
I wonder how big of an effect getting on the front page of HN has on your YC application. I can&#x27;t imagine it being that much, but this won&#x27;t be the first time someone has tried (and succeeded).
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dalek2point3大约 11 年前
You&#x27;ve misspelt &quot;notifiactions&quot; on your main page.
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jacalata大约 11 年前
tl;dr: because we think that the questions asked on the application are good ones to have considered simply for the future of a startup anyway.
rco8786大约 11 年前
Seems like 30 year old engineers from Microsoft&#x2F;Amazon would pretty much fit in perfectly to an ideal YC founding team.