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Only two outcomes: either everyone can access it or only few big companies can. While not ideal, the former is much better.


It really isn't when you realize everyone includes people who sell home burglary as a service as scale.


I don't think this was how it got started but you can think of HN as content marketing / recruiting channels for YC.


Thanks for the insight. I should have mentioned that this is designed to work with your TV in your living room. You'd power walk in the same spot.


Doh. Of course ._.


Do you watch anything on TV?


I think first impression is important but not a key indicator of long term success. The first iPhone unlocked the mobile web browsing use case, which is huge. People had always wanted to browse the web, just not on mobile. That alone makes the first iPhone a revolutionary product. Magic Leap One has to create new user behavior, which is much much harder.


We don't know the final price. Wesify = We sell it for you. :-)


The name makes sense now.

Well, it says on the website that you guys make an optimised listing AND collect the money from the buyer. So how can you not know the final price?


Thanks! Can you share what you're working on?


It's a type of puzzle game - easy to learn but impossible to master - you can play solo or against an opponent.


It works for me, too. The inspiration was from this TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQMbvJNRpLE.

The idea of marginal adjustment is both simple and powerful.


I think the fact that it looks like toy is a plus to YC. https://blog.ycombinator.com/why-toys/

Great founders + (seemingly) toy/stupid/too hard ideas = how YC selects.


I think along with this TOY-ness, YC also looks for the available market and in this case I do not see that with this app. maybe the idea is to get some traction and sell it to Google down the road?


That's good feedback - why do you think the available market is small?

That's certainly a possibility, but for now we're just really focused on making the product really useful.


I maybe wrong but I see the email market in two ways: people who have two many emails which creates a scheduling problem. And people who reply/compose too many emails. I think the later market is not that big because you also need to make sure the people get more value (or should I say, write more emails) out of the monthly fees they pay for the service. But I'd like to be wrong here and I wish you succeed. Thanks.


Thanks for the support! Really appreciate that :)


Relevant previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12044872


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