Ask YC: Attack of the clones; would you take your start-up to a YC Clone? 18 years ago
went to one of the YC clones.
the biggest problem with these YC clones is two-fold.
first, most of the clones' founders have a)either not founded a start-up b)founded a start-up in a completely different field.
second, the lack of technical ability isn't the most conducive, to, ya know, doing a start-up in the early stages based entirely on code. ideas from the founders are pretty much fluff, because they don't understand rudimentary concepts of code, what can and cannot be done, how long things could possibly take, etc.