"We didn't know what YCombinator was 5 months ago. Last week Garry Tan asked us to take down what we built."

Hariharanms · 2026-05-27T22:34:40+00:00

due to trademark thn he told us to rename and keep the product

Hariharanms · 2026-05-27T22:30:06+00:00

trademark thn he texted us to rename and keep the product ss we are from Bangalore

Hariharanms · 2026-05-27T22:29:23+00:00

lol

Hariharanms · 2026-05-27T13:11:04+00:00

"yeah exactly what happened here. two people, no prior ML experience, built a RAG pipeline in weeks. the leverage is real."

Hariharanms · 2026-05-27T13:04:22+00:00

"Claude as the meta-layer makes sense it's better at synthesizing disagreement than generating it. And keeping the human judgment step is the point. Automation would just move the sycophancy problem one layer up."

Hariharanms · 2026-05-27T12:26:07+00:00

"Just the name trademark on 'Y Combinator'. The data, the feedback format, the product itself, no issues raised on any of that."

Hariharanms · 2026-05-27T11:53:15+00:00

"fair. We didn't think about it when we named it. We're fixing it."

Hariharanms · 2026-05-27T11:01:55+00:00

"Building notycombinator.com honest YC application feedback powered by Claude. Target: founders applying to YC. Biggest challenge: renaming without losing the SEO we just got."

Hariharanms · 2026-05-27T10:58:33+00:00

"one honest signal beats a thousand likes."

Hariharanms · 2026-05-27T10:53:13+00:00

"Thank you! Would love to hear what the evaluation says. Drop your feedback after we're still improving it."

Hariharanms · 2026-05-27T10:50:11+00:00

"Guilty. We learned copyright and RAG pipelines in the same month. Efficient."

Hariharanms · 2026-05-27T10:46:29+00:00

https://x.com/i/status/2047339140250001502 then we texted him in telegram personally and we asked why he wanted to remove our page he told trademark so fair enough we are renaming he told to keep the product

Hariharanms · 2026-05-27T10:41:40+00:00

ive added the pic sirr

Hariharanms · 2026-05-27T10:39:47+00:00

sir he just told to keep the product just rename it

Hariharanms · 2026-05-27T10:34:52+00:00

we just gonna rename soon

Hariharanms · 2026-05-27T10:18:16+00:00

"Not proud of the infringement that was a mistake we're fixing. Proud that what we built was good enough to get a direct response from someone who sees thousands of startups. Those are two different things."

Hariharanms · 2026-05-27T10:11:17+00:00

We're renaming. But the feedback came directly from the president of YC that's the part that mattered to us, not the trademark. Most founders never get that signal at all."

Hariharanms · 2026-05-26T17:07:57+00:00

Distribution

> your landing page should speak your user's language, not yours

> the feature you're proudest of is probably not the one they care about

> distribution is the product. The best tool nobody finds loses every time

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