You can make good coin being a tire salesman my dude. The same concept applies to software, the complexity of the idea is quite irrelevant. If anything you are better off shipping an MVP with core features and building on it.
I fell for the startup meme
Eli Roberts
Aiden Miller
thanks anyway, haven't tried this method yet
Daniel Butler
>Y combinator is going to take on a start-up for forum software and chat rooms.
Please tell me you're not this stupid user.
Charles Sullivan
well, they funded reddit, which was literally a hacker news knock-off
Nolan Parker
Yes, they funded reddit when it was new and innovative.
They fund new and innovative ideas with huge growth potential, hence why they aren't funding things like that.
Easton Ward
Even if reddit was a dumb product, thinking that justifies your dumb products in a market that is extremely saturated had a good chance is ridiculous. If you had a killer product and got interviewed a bunch and still rejected I'd understand your butthurt more.
Hudson Harris
fiverr
Aaron Baker
I'm not butt hurt at all user. My problems are my own fault. I was simply baffled that YC funded reddit, because there were established platforms of this type back then and they literally copied YC's own aggregator.
Leo Gray
That was in 2005, user.
Ayden Hernandez
user, that's not the same principle.
Tire salesmen don't make their own tires.
They make profit because there is a steady stream of demand for their product and service.
Software development is completely different as there isn't an inherent demand for any specific service.
You have to create that demand with your ideas, and you have to constantly improve upon them to compete.
Take social media for example.
Sure, there WAS a demand for MySpace, but it dwindled because they didn't update to fit new ideas/technology.