Not really and this is totally not related to Slashy, it just look like the same as the other 20 Slashys launched last month. Launch HNs used to be exciting.
Maybe HN/ycombinator is just not interesting anymore. I saw some of you commenting that this might be similar to the famous Dropbox situation. That could not be more delusional and representative of what HN became, a meme of itself.
The strategy is throw a little bit of money at everything, hope one of them will become a unicorn, everyone gets richer.
Rinse and repeat.
You're right though ... these YC batches are not what they used to be. AI is hot right now, so it seems YC is throwing money at anything that seems like it can at least actually do something (not that it is necessarily good). If that product doesn't get hot, who cares? Plenty more money to go around on the next batch, because one of them probably will!
Hmm that's fair, we're definitely not the most exciting launch out there compared to others in our batch.
I'd like to think the fact we do what we promise is exciting, but without trying the product hard to convey that well :)