YC has not lost its way: launching Zoom from your cal is too much work

There's a nonzero chance this is another Dropbox. "Why would anyone pay for a taskbar widget that's just rsync?", wrote some folks in 2007 (right here on HN! [0]).

But people derive all kinds of value from the right context in the right place at the right time. Small things can have big, compounding value — and eventually become indispensable.

Hopefully, this post will make me look smart in about 10 years or so.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Age old question: What's a feature and what's a company? Many software questions start as "features" that an incumbent could have built. The question is whether they break out before the incumbent realizes the value.

https://9to5mac.com/2018/01/11/dropbox-ipo/

So, I'm confused you rebuilt the product for a YC company in one blog post and you think their company has enough of a differentiator to launch a company?

I don't know if a single button to join your Zoom meeting is enough value to justify an entire company, but there's a niche to be filled in smoothing over those inefficient parts of your remote workflow.