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Comment by meterplech | Hacker News Reader

Wait, did they choose to shut down because they weren't accepted to YC? I haven't applied and can't exactly put myself in their place, but I feel like the most successful people would continue to try to grow their company anyway. Or is there a bigger story here I am missing?

Edit: grammar

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Having someone they respect tell them something they that, deep down, already knew, was probably the reason they shut it down. If the business model isn't right, then it isn't right and no amount of coding can fix that.

The business model is very fixable.

Though it might seem that way, it was more that YC was a last straw. We think we had an interesting product and there were a lot of possibilities, but there were also a lot of other problems as well, some I wrote about and some I didn't. I definitely wouldn't let a YC decision have an impact on your business, but consider their feedback one part of many that you will receive while building your company, and react accordingly.

You should build something else instead of entirely stopping.

FTA: It was a huge confidence booster that I will take with me into my future projects. I hope to interview with YC again with whatever project I happen on next (maybe Fready?)

I hope he started the day after rejection, is what I meant

Why would I ever stop? :) This product is no longer, but there are many other related ones that build on what I've learned and I'm currently exploring them.

Fair enough- I would definitely classify that as other information. Didn't mean to be overly judgmental. I just know that TechCrunch recently had an article about foreign startups aiming for funding and not building a business, and was thinking of that.

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