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Ben Tossell@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
I recently read your initial YC application http://alexisohanian.com/our-y-c... - and you guys said you were rejected by YC with this and told you could join if you came up with a new idea... what is the story of coming up with that new idea (reddit) and pitching it back to YC to get accepted?
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Alexis Ohanian@alexisohanian · Co-founder, Reddit & Initialized Capital
@BenTossell Thank you, Jessica, for demanding to the other partners that they let us into YC. She had second thoughts the next morning and YC decided they would accept us, but only if we changed our idea to something in a browser (not for mobile) that "solved our problem every morning." Here's the story in a much longer form.... (ganked from my book) Somew… See more
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Ben Tossell@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
@alexisohanian getting the book...
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Vitor@vit05 · tapan.ga
@alexisohanian late for the party, but would have loved to hear your thoughts about AR. And what do you think about Audio Apps, we have space for something new?
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Alexis Ohanian@alexisohanian · Co-founder, Reddit & Initialized Capital
@bentossell Thanks, Ben! There's an e-book version floating around in these comments...
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Alexis Ohanian@alexisohanian · Co-founder, Reddit & Initialized Capital
@vit05 There's a lot of hype in AR right now and I'm pretty skeptical of most of it. I believe in it long-term, but short-term the only 2 companies doing hardware around this space that I could get behind are Thalmic https://www.thalmic.com/whatsnext and Meta https://www.metavision.com/ What are audio apps, exactly? Spotify?
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Vitor@vit05 · tapan.ga
@alexisohanian Thanks for answer. =) metavision looks cool, but to big for use on streets. Spotify is for produced music. I mean any kind of audio. I see a lot of podcasts apps (terrible name) or apps to talk directly to friends. But I do not see many social apps that are fun to use for spontaneous audios. I do not know if anyone wants something like this… See more
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