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  > #20 A bad design with a good presentation is doomed
  > eventually. A good design with a bad presentation
  > is doomed immediately.

This should be the Y Combinator motto. It is one of the axioms that is represented here again and again, both explicitly and implicitly.

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Hm? I can't think of any recent projects with good design but bad presentation. The first half is true, but the second half seems mistaken in the context of the web.

You can't think of them because they immediately failed, and thus you forgot about them or, more likely, never heard of them in the first place.

Exactly this. I have a long list of examples, with a one-to-one correspondence to large capital losses I have incurred. This is not a coincidence.

> doomed immediately

It's an amenity, though.

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