I Don't Give a Damn About Getting Into YC

This was not my point: the headline and the whole post were meant to be thought provoking. If I spent time to apply to YC it means that I obviously care about it. And it's good that a program like this attracts a lot of smart people. I just think it is really wrong to pass the message that YC is major goal itself, at the point you need to "hack in" or attend online specific preparation classes. It looks to me this approach just risks to shift too much the baricenter from making things to showing off some standard sexy stuff.