If the YC-adjacent scene stopped funding boring incremental startups maybe we'd dig our way out of the Great Stagnation.

Gumroad is something that should be a 0% fee opensource developer component, not an entire company.

The YC Facebook feed has been depressing lately: $6M funding for one of those links-on-a-page startups, $50M funding for a startup that wants to sell Pokemon cards on a livestream. The VCs are fuelling stagnation by funding these boring inconsequential projects.