I believe there is a difference between an open source framework and a product. You would still have to manage and scale your infra, build the integration layer around it to make it accessible where your teams are, fix bugs etc...

I am not saying that build is always the bad choice, but the tradeoff did not disappear imo

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verdverm 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm surprised how much you push back instead of dig in to understand more. I have heard mentor time is way down at YC since they stopped doing things that don't scale. You could be asking questions to better understand where you'd fit in with users and how to better position yourself. We are your market, how do we see the world now, post-ai?

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gbnwl an hour ago | parent [-]

I’m newer to knowing and caring about what YC does at all in terms of the companies it funds. The fact that this is YC makes me think the org has forfeited any sense of “taste” at all. Complete scattershot from people who have money to scatter I guess.

	▲	verdverm an hour ago \| parent [-]
		You can read old Paul Graham essays and the early YC Startup School (which is probably when peak YC happened) to get a sense of the ethos. They increased batch size to scale (as context for the "stopped doing things that don't scale" comment) https://www.startupschool.org/