For you this is just another startup, but for the founders this is their big moment. So please show at least enough respect not to dismiss them without evaluating them.
He didn't dismiss Pathjoy. He dismissed TechCrunch. And your comment is welcome, but would be even more welcome if you applied it to every company that "launched" to HN, not just the ones you helped shepherd.
Wow. I'm definitely sorry if I've offended, but as tptacek pointed out I was talking about techcrunch's coverage which feels formulaic, bland, and unconvincing to me at this point (perhaps especially for these YC coming-out posts).
I think this is actually potentially constructive feedback, since if other people are feeling this way then it might signal a need to think about TC write-ups differently. That said, the comment received effectively zero votes, so I'm probably in the minority and can be safely ignored.
At any rate, I certainly didn't mean to dismiss Pathjoy at all. I'll be much more careful next time I comment on YC/TC.
"Pathjoy might be great" doesn't sound like a dismissal, and these TC announcements are uninteresting to me as well. The YC startups look like widgets coming off a conveyor belt.