[HN Gopher] The AI startup drama that's damaging Y Combinator's ...
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The AI startup drama that's damaging Y Combinator's reputation
Author : olalonde
Score : 49 points
Date : 2024-10-02 16:43 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.indiehackers.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.indiehackers.com)
| more_corn wrote:
| Saved you two clicks "PearAI, an open-source AI code editor. When
| people looked at its code they found that it was a clone of an
| existing open-source project called Continue.dev."
| add-sub-mul-div wrote:
| Why should people be dissuaded from clicking twice to develop a
| more nuanced take of their own than a two sentence summary from
| a stranger with unknown biases?
| sanswork wrote:
| If the link is to indiehackers it's just going to be a forum
| post from another stranger with unknown biases.
| islewis wrote:
| Regardless of what you think of Pear, making the claim that
| they have damaged Y Combinator's reputation is pretty
| dramatic.
|
| Knowing the title is in reference to Pear (and not something
| that could be _actually_ damaging to YC's rep) lets me know
| the article is probably isnt worth the time.
| fakedang wrote:
| > Regardless of what you think of Pear, making the claim
| that they have damaged Y Combinator's reputation is pretty
| dramatic.
|
| YC's main value is in subsequent fundraising, wherein
| companies are pre-vetted by YC before being invested in by
| VCs. If they lose the confidence of VCs as being a reliable
| arbiter of preseed startups, the better startups will just
| go elsewhere (already happening) and soon the VCs will too.
| Thus harming YC's reputation massively.
| havan_agrawal wrote:
| > In the wake of all this drama, a blog post titled "Y Combinator
| Traded Prestige for Growth" went viral and hit the top of Hacker
| News. Which you might have missed, because Hacker News -- which
| is owned by Y Combinator -- seems to have manually dropped the
| post lower in the rankings to suppress its visibility.
|
| Is this true? I never thought HN moderated content critical of
| itself
| add-sub-mul-div wrote:
| I'm sure nobody has hard proof either way, but there's
| certainly an ongoing pattern of the symptom. This place only
| exists to promote YC, so you can decide for yourself which is
| the simplest explanation.
| atxbcp wrote:
| Yes, that's true. The thread reached the top of Hacker News,
| then disappeared. I had to use HN Algolia to find it again.
| sanswork wrote:
| dang has said on multiple occasions they don't and he has never
| given me any reason to doubt his integrity. Quite the opposite.
| NicoJuicy wrote:
| There are a lot of HN folks here ( startups, ... )
|
| Dang said they didn't do it and it's being flagged by users.
|
| Which obviously makes sense of you think about it.
| freedomben wrote:
| The flags on hn are extremely powerful, so I don't doubt
| this. Just a few flags obliterate a post with tons of
| upvotes. It wouldn't take many people to kill it, and it
| doesn't require a conspiracy
| blibble wrote:
| decide for yourself
|
| https://hnrankings.info/41697032/
|
| this happens very, very frequently
| aguaviva wrote:
| Can you provide more examples?
| tanvach wrote:
| Don't know why the link doesn't go to the article correctly.
| Here's the working link:
| https://www.indiehackers.com/post/starting-up/the-ai-startup...
| layer8 wrote:
| That's a pretty wild quote from Matthew Duke Pan, one of the
| PearAI "founders":
|
| > dawg i chatgpt'd the license, anyone is free to use our app for
| free for whatever they want. if there's a problem with the
| license just lmk i'll change it. we busy building rn can't be
| bothered with legal
|
| [https://x.com/anothercohen/status/1840515897804623882/photo/...]
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