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by camillomiller 681 days ago
I took a look at the most recent cohort of YC, and one stood out. It's some sort of referral marketplace front / personal shopper for electronics that's just a wrapper for some chatGPT external calls. I do not understand how it got in. The founders admitted on Reddit that they were surprised as well, as they "only had the idea" and didn't even have an MVP yet. Then I saw their high-level US education, their working pedigree (Tencent employees, I believe), and realized that, you know, it's not really and fundamentally about the idea, is it? Otherwise your LLM wrapper could also stand a chance to get into the next YC cohort.
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Don't take it too seriously. My app is focused on providing a quick and easy way to share initial project concepts with others. The key is feedback gathering. I use LLM just to quickly provide project brief for user.