[todd3834]

Techstars should have bought Indiehackers or built a community like HN. I realize Indiehackers might not be a perfect fit (bootstrap vs VC). The fact that I’m on HN just about every. Single. Day. Keeps YC top of mind way more than I could imagine it would otherwise.

[poisonborz]

You can't "build" a community like HN. Not even YC could (again) if they wanted to. Things like good mods is still just maintenance. It's a single lucky constellation of stars, and the gravitational pull after that.

[ok_dad]

I really hope if YC goes under that HN has some support from elsewhere. This is the only social media I do because of how good the insights are in the comments and I don’t think I could recreate the feed quality anywhere else, even on my own.

[anitil]

I'm sure there's a lot of other people contributing, but it feels like this community is held together by the benevolent but unyielding hand of dang

[CalRobert]

Well, there's https://lobste.rs/, or we could all go back to slashdot I guess

[LunaSea]

Lobste.rs is invite only which means that most people can't participate on the site.

Result is that there is a low volume of content and participation.

[quickthrower2]

If not, see you on r/hn

[loceng]

Do you think there are many VCs who daily HN too, which is why that comes to mind, or just the association is useful for you to reinforce the values of feeling like you're being witnessed?

[neom]

Every VC in my VC friend group daily HN, but they all think they're doing something special that nobody else is doing.... Haven't told them yet, heh.

[loceng]

Looking to get a head's up - first mover advantage on a potential investment opportunity?

[neom]

Trend spotting. Most of us are devtools folks, ain't nowhere better than HN if you're into devtools.

[todd3834]

I would say the daily subconscious reminder that I’m in a community that is run by an incubator. It keeps that incubator top of mind, it’s even in the URL. The built in marketing for YC helps keep them at the top.