Or just used earplugs. They can take some getting used to, but are worth it noisy disturbances are affecting your sleep.
If the goal was to have fun, that's great. If the goal was to solve a problem, I'm reminded of when engineers build over-engineered solutions, when a simple solution is available.
Slight nitpick (in the spirit of HN): Looks like the search is case sensitive when I think HN usernames are not. Only realised when my phone capitalised the first letter and it returned no results, but worked after searching in lowercase.
It says "Our users are everywhere" and shows some logos for the companies these users are from.
If the users are from those companies, this is not lying.
If they added logos for companies their users are not from, it would be lying.
Adding a logo to your webpage has started to follow different patterns for the stage of the company.
Early stage companies show things like "people at X, Y, Z use our product!" (showing logos without permission), whilst later stage ones tend to show logos after asking for permission, and with more formal case studies.
They may not have asked for permission to show these logos, but that's not the same thing as lying.
Super interesting, thank you very much for sharing your thoughts!
HN is still one of the few places on the internet to get such esoteric, expert and intellectually stimulating content. It's like an Island where the spirit of 'the old internet' still lives on.
Am I missing something, or are HN readers assuming (incorrectly) the author is non-technical and looking for someone to build out their ideas?
From what I can see, the author is a CTO who is ex-meta and Stanford computer science. They look like a technical co-founder to me.
I know there's this annoying and widely prevalent persona of co-founder dater with only ideas, and no skills to build them, but this author doesn't seem to be that.
As a long time HN reader, eventually participating in YCW21, the main thing i would like to highlight is there's so many misconceptions about YC on HN.
It would take too long to refute them all, but just remember the HN readerships' view of YC is pretty distorted. ("it's all about VC money" , "it's just for ivy league grads" etc).
I could go on, but just read Paul Graham's essays - that's probably the best way to understand how YC thinks.
Having been through both Techstars and YC, this article is painfully accurate.
Being part of both networks has been an interesting experience in culture.
YC culture fosters an extremely strong network of founders, even outside the bay area. In London we're constantly pinging each other for advice - it really helps.
Techstars does not have this and makes little effort to do this. I remember speaking to some Techstars people in London trying to see if they might Foster more of the community here, but they had no interest in it unfortunately.
It's a real shame because some Techstars programs with the right MDs had YC quality (Shoutout to Connor), it's just the quality wasn't distributed or cultivated uniformly. It's heavily dependent on the MD of the program.
If the goal was to have fun, that's great. If the goal was to solve a problem, I'm reminded of when engineers build over-engineered solutions, when a simple solution is available.