Tech innovation is a cycle, particularly in the principle character-driven world of early-stage enterprise capital and copycat nature of startups.
The most recent proof? Y Combinator this week introduced Launch YC, a platform the place folks can type accelerator startups by business, batch and launch date to find new merchandise. The famed accelerator, which has seeded the likes of Instacart, Coinbase, OpenSea and Dropbox, invitations customers to vote for newly launched startups “to assist them climb up the leaderboard, check out product demos and be taught in regards to the founding workforce,” it stated in a weblog put up.
If it sounds acquainted, it’s as a result of — in my perspective — Y Combinator is taking a not-so-subtle swipe at Product Hunt, an almost decade-old platform that’s synonymous with new startup launches and have bulletins.
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Y Combinator doesn’t essentially agree with this characterization: The accelerator’s head of communications, Lindsay Amos, informed me over e mail that “we encourage YC founders to launch on many platforms — from the YC Listing to Product Hunt to Hacker Information to Launch YC — with the intention to attain clients, buyers and candidates.”
The overlap isn’t remoted. As Y Combinator makes a Product Hunt, Product Hunt is making an Andreessen Horowitz. In the meantime, a16z is making its personal Y Combinator. To not point out Product Hunt has funding capital from a16z and previously went by the Y Combinator accelerator.