Ask YC: YNot? Lemonade from Lemons.

http://ynotcombinator.com

by hendler • 18 years ago

19 13 18 years ago

ynotcombinator.com

semigeek• 18 years ago

The concept aside - the logo needs some work; white text on white waves, hurts the eyes.

craig-faber• 18 years ago

NewsCup looks good though.

flyhighplato• 18 years ago

I'm not sure what you could be basing that on. I didn't see any demos (or did I miss a link?). I read a list of features and a vague description in a few places. You can't really make a judgment either way.

hendler5• 18 years ago

Fixed.

ericb2• 18 years ago

There's demand from decent startups for the YC advantages which outstrips their capacity, per pg's posting. I'm not nuts about the Ynotcombinator concept. I don't see not being in ycombinator as a defining characteristic of myself or a group I would join.

Chiefly, I'd be interested in ways to get to know angels and find good mentors and a social/support group environment for startups. (Startupaholics Anonymous?). I think some of this works best at the local level. If anyone has suggestions for something like this that exists or they'd like to start, I'm open to it and in Boston.

hendler5• 18 years ago

Yup - YCombinator is simply busy. YNotCombinator is not an anti-group - it's a pro group - simply another channel to communicate your idea, and hopefully find an angel. Some submitters don't even have blogs - so I thought... YNot.

Boston already has some great stuff. MIT enterprise forum, 40 colleges and Universities - pick the talks happening at Business schools. Plenty of startupaholics there. Meetup.com can be lame for this stuff, or good. I like craigslist.

ericb2• 18 years ago

Appreciate the tips--good stuff. Thanks! I'll keep an eye on what you do with the site. The angels tab is a 404 at the moment, fyi.

Prrometheus• 18 years ago

>simply another channel to communicate your idea

I thought that one of YCombinator's key values was picking good people and teams, not good ideas.

dmoney• 18 years ago

> YCombinator is simply busy. YNotCombinator is not an anti-group - it's a pro group

Clever name, but it also kind of makes you sound like sloppy seconds.

sanj• 18 years ago

There's a lot more talking going on than doing.

HN is the community that you already want (need?).

If you've got an idea, just build it.

Stop wasting time wringing your hands and creating new groups.

hendler5• 18 years ago

Yup, great community. Yup, building is better than talking.

Personally, I don't think marketing and communication is a waste of time, even for some one technical - especially when you are bootstrapping. For other folks, it's a login with OpenID, and a copy/paste of info they already have. It helps with page rank too.

Ask YC: YNot? Lemonade from Lemons.

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