[xwowsersx]

How do Launch HNs work exactly? Is any group that was part of any YC batch allowed to do a Launch HN and continue to do so each time they pivot? I don't have an issue with this, I'm just trying to understand why a startup that was in the Winter 2014 batch is doing a Launch HN nearly nine years later. Presumably they pivoted several times, perhaps from something not even remotely related to feature flags?

I know some of the details of how to submit a Launch HN are described here https://news.ycombinator.com/yli.html but doesn't quite answer my questions. Just curious!

[dang]

They hadn't done one before and each startup gets one. They aren't even the oldest - I think RescueTime (YC W08) has the record: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28683597

We're thinking of relaxing the rules so that a startup that's working on something fundamentally different can do a later Launch HN (perhaps after a year or two have gone by), but that's still undecided.

[xwowsersx]

Thanks for the clarification dang

[jxf]

If I understand correctly, DevCycle is new, but Taplytics (from that YC batch) is the parent. DevCycle doesn't seem to be a decade old.

[cdrux]

That is correct!

DevCycle is quite new, we just started working on it in 2022.