I like your landing page and the video where the guy does stuff outside while his agents work in background, but the nature of your company does not appear to me as being consistent with screenshots of messages from Paul Graham discussing what startups ought to be like, etc, that YCombinator's LinkedIn account keeps posting. I'm not saying that this is you, but I have an impression that a lot of these companies getting into YC do it as a money grab and/or for bragging rights while being as technically sophisticated as an above-average high school project. It's great that you got funded, but I'm not sure if you should have been.
I'd say to try it out first, and then let me know what you think! And a product doesn't have to be technically sophisticated to be funded by YC (although I would say that Omnara is a pretty technical product, which you'll see if you try it out)!
I used to think that getting admitted to YC was a major accomplishment. Maybe it was at some point, but at the college graduation parties of my daughter it seemed like pretty much everyone who tried had gotten in. Most collapsed after a few months due to infighting, funds mismanagement etc. It was fascinating to watch.
I think you mean "prestigious" rather than "major accomplishment". You're right, there was a small period of time when it was. However, that window didn't quite align with "best time to do YC" (several years prior to such prestige) nor with "best time to be doing YC" (the prestige embellishes your resume, which is useless if you're otherwise occupied).
It's interesting to me that YC has managed to dilute this prestige to a large extent. I don't think it's an inevitable result of scale: look at Google. I think "Xoogler" prestige has diminished, but it's not nearly as bad as what has happened to the YC label.
My theory is: YC never figured out their formula. The whole formula is essentially Paul Graham, who had a knack for trusting his gut (and sometimes his wife) when everything else in his "system" was saying NO.
Once they lost that, they had to rely on what was left, and it simply wasn't competitive anymore. It's like Apple in their John Sculley era. While Sculley is credited with growing Apple's revenue from $800 million to $8 billion, his approach created a "mess of dull SKUs" that eventually confused customers and diluted the brand.
They also have a (bad) habit of removing access to bookface for all the founders who aren't "active", decimating their network and in some ways discarding valuable knowledge around what didn't work.
We're a very complex Claude Code wrapper :) Try it out and lmk what you think!
I like your landing page and the video where the guy does stuff outside while his agents work in background, but the nature of your company does not appear to me as being consistent with screenshots of messages from Paul Graham discussing what startups ought to be like, etc, that YCombinator's LinkedIn account keeps posting. I'm not saying that this is you, but I have an impression that a lot of these companies getting into YC do it as a money grab and/or for bragging rights while being as technically sophisticated as an above-average high school project. It's great that you got funded, but I'm not sure if you should have been.
I'd say to try it out first, and then let me know what you think! And a product doesn't have to be technically sophisticated to be funded by YC (although I would say that Omnara is a pretty technical product, which you'll see if you try it out)!
YC funded a brainrot IDE. They will literally throw money at anything. They don’t care.
I used to think that getting admitted to YC was a major accomplishment. Maybe it was at some point, but at the college graduation parties of my daughter it seemed like pretty much everyone who tried had gotten in. Most collapsed after a few months due to infighting, funds mismanagement etc. It was fascinating to watch.
I think you mean "prestigious" rather than "major accomplishment". You're right, there was a small period of time when it was. However, that window didn't quite align with "best time to do YC" (several years prior to such prestige) nor with "best time to be doing YC" (the prestige embellishes your resume, which is useless if you're otherwise occupied).
It's interesting to me that YC has managed to dilute this prestige to a large extent. I don't think it's an inevitable result of scale: look at Google. I think "Xoogler" prestige has diminished, but it's not nearly as bad as what has happened to the YC label.
My theory is: YC never figured out their formula. The whole formula is essentially Paul Graham, who had a knack for trusting his gut (and sometimes his wife) when everything else in his "system" was saying NO.
Once they lost that, they had to rely on what was left, and it simply wasn't competitive anymore. It's like Apple in their John Sculley era. While Sculley is credited with growing Apple's revenue from $800 million to $8 billion, his approach created a "mess of dull SKUs" that eventually confused customers and diluted the brand.
They also have a (bad) habit of removing access to bookface for all the founders who aren't "active", decimating their network and in some ways discarding valuable knowledge around what didn't work.
I think Jessica Livingston deserves at least as much credit as Paul for YC's success in that early era, and IIRC he has the same view.