Ask HN: Do you think the next Apple is going to apply to YC?
I know it's a silly preposition, but it's fun to speculate about these things. YC is great, no doubt about that, but recently, the startups coming through it seem same-y in a way. Most are web services, and often focused on the hot trends in SV right now, like Spreadsheet as a Database Startup #271, generate app from another popular service like Airtable or Google Sheets, etc.
No doubt these are cool products, and personally, I really like companies like these. But it seems to me that companies favored by YC are in a bubble of sorts. So this got me thinking, do you think the next Apple is going to apply to YC? It does not have to be Apple specifically, what I mean by Apple is a company that is doing something so novel that most of us don't even recognize (either because of the novelty itself or their genuinely tiny scale) that they are creating a new industry.
No doubt these are cool products, and personally, I really like companies like these. But it seems to me that companies favored by YC are in a bubble of sorts. So this got me thinking, do you think the next Apple is going to apply to YC? It does not have to be Apple specifically, what I mean by Apple is a company that is doing something so novel that most of us don't even recognize (either because of the novelty itself or their genuinely tiny scale) that they are creating a new industry.