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YC: Requests for Startups

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514 points sarimkx | 2 comments | 14 Feb 24 16:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.427s | source
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gavinhoward ◴[14 Feb 24 17:36 UTC] No.39372613[source]▶
I am building a company that falls under two categories (commercial Open Source and developer tools based on internal tools), but I would never take YC money for it.

Because of that stake, they want an "exit" in some form, and the drive to that exit will pave the road to user-hostile software and make it the path of least resistance.

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fakedang ◴[14 Feb 24 17:40 UTC] No.39372661[source]▶
I don't know, I would argue that YC might be the best place for Open Source and Dev Tools, because you start along with a large cohort of former and current YC startups who will be willing to try out your product. Plus the YC partners actually have experience in working with successful companies in this space, so that's actually equity that they would deserve.

That being said, dev tools is one of the sectors they have stopped funding, seemingly.

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1. candiddevmike ◴[14 Feb 24 17:51 UTC] No.39372802[source]▶
For good reason: most of the dev tools companies have been commercial duds. Lots of traction/GitHub stars maybe, but none of those amounted to real sales.
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2. eschneider ◴[14 Feb 24 18:36 UTC] No.39373409[source]▶
There's often good money to be made in dev tools, but it's not always VC-level money.