[davidpayne11]

Is it just me, or has YC has become shit off-late? No offense, I think the game is great, but worth funding for? I doubt, I mean not from YC ofcourse. What happened to true innovation at YC? This is just plain embarrassing for YC, ofcourse. But really, great game guys, keep it going though..

[pg]

It's you. You don't grasp that the combination of

(a) the fact that good startup ideas have to look like bad ideas initially and

(b) that the optimal way to grow a startup is to launch something as small as possible as fast as possible

together mean that most startups look bad initially.

I wouldn't say just you though, because there are a lot of people who don't grasp this.

[daeken]

> I wouldn't say just you though, because there are a lot of people who don't grasp this.

I think it comes down to a difference between those who see the now and those who see 3-10 years out. If they came to you and said "we've got this awesome game, and we plan to stop there", you wouldn't fund them; that's what most people see. I have no idea what trick they have up their sleeve or if they'll sink or swim, but if it's a YC company, you can assume they have a grand plan (even if it's wrong in the end) to be a Big Thing (TM). That most people don't see it is probably a good thing.

[chacham15]

> (a) the fact that good startup ideas have to look like bad ideas initially and

I dont know if it's just me, but I have a question about that: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4563402

[finkin1]

Wait - you're saying it's embarrassing YC funded this project, but it's a great game? Adding "no offense" isn't some magic spell. Why wouldn't YC fund this? Do you even know the reputation of the developers?

[jvrossb]

How do you suspect all the great game studios/media empires got started? Disney was just a few cartoons once...

[JabavuAdams]

That's a huge stretch. There are many profitable small game studios that will never be great nor media empires.

[YuriNiyazov]

Great strawman. He didn't say that every small media company will grow into a large empire. He said that every large empire started as a small media company.

[JabavuAdams]

The point is that's a content-free statement, used in that direction. Every genius started as a single cell. So what? Doesn't really tell us anything about anything.

[YuriNiyazov]

Yes it does. It tells us not to look for signs of greatness in how things start.