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Ask YC: YNot? Lemonade from Lemons.

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There's a lot more talking going on than doing.

HN is the community that you already want (need?).

If you've got an idea, just build it.

Stop wasting time wringing your hands and creating new groups.

Yup, great community. Yup, building is better than talking.

Personally, I don't think marketing and communication is a waste of time, even for some one technical - especially when you are bootstrapping. For other folks, it's a login with OpenID, and a copy/paste of info they already have. It helps with page rank too.

There's demand from decent startups for the YC advantages which outstrips their capacity, per pg's posting. I'm not nuts about the Ynotcombinator concept. I don't see not being in ycombinator as a defining characteristic of myself or a group I would join.

Chiefly, I'd be interested in ways to get to know angels and find good mentors and a social/support group environment for startups. (Startupaholics Anonymous?). I think some of this works best at the local level. If anyone has suggestions for something like this that exists or they'd like to start, I'm open to it and in Boston.

Yup - YCombinator is simply busy. YNotCombinator is not an anti-group - it's a pro group - simply another channel to communicate your idea, and hopefully find an angel. Some submitters don't even have blogs - so I thought... YNot.

Boston already has some great stuff. MIT enterprise forum, 40 colleges and Universities - pick the talks happening at Business schools. Plenty of startupaholics there. Meetup.com can be lame for this stuff, or good. I like craigslist.

Appreciate the tips--good stuff. Thanks! I'll keep an eye on what you do with the site. The angels tab is a 404 at the moment, fyi.

"The angels tab is a 404 at the moment, fyi."

Exactly!!! ;)

>simply another channel to communicate your idea

I thought that one of YCombinator's key values was picking good people and teams, not good ideas.

That's a good point actually. I'm just becoming familiar with YCombinator, and not questioning the selection process. I think this community and the selection process is working pretty well.

Hoping communicating through YNotCombinator can show that I am a "good person" and help me attract a good team. Since my stuff is pretty far along, I'm at the stage where the idea, and proof of concept are fairly mature, and I need the team and attention.

> YCombinator is simply busy. YNotCombinator is not an anti-group - it's a pro group

Clever name, but it also kind of makes you sound like sloppy seconds.

The concept aside - the logo needs some work; white text on white waves, hurts the eyes.

NewsCup looks good though.

I'm not sure what you could be basing that on. I didn't see any demos (or did I miss a link?). I read a list of features and a vague description in a few places. You can't really make a judgment either way.

Fixed.

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