What will Y Combinator look like in three years?

[dwynings]

http://areallybadidea.com/what-will-y-combinator-look-like-in-three-yea

[aristus]

Someone asked this question 4 years ago today. PG joked about getting Trevor to build him a robot:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7554

[Samuel_Michon]

Not to sound luddite, but I hope it won't have changed much. Same for Hacker News. IMHO, it's perfect as is.

EDIT: the first time around, I couldn't read the linked article, as the server was HN'ed. Now, having read the article, I wholeheartedly agree. I do hope, that if YC scales much further, it will expand to Europe. I feel I shouldn't have to move to the valley to create a successful startup. For instance, my hometown is a sister city to Palo Alto, surely there's some opportunity to share the love.

[pauldisneyiv → Samuel_Michon]

Not to come across as a downer; but there is nothing to say that you can't create a successful startup where you're at. You simply cannot be part of the Y Combinator program.

Have faith and get coding!

[jerf]

That's an aggressive answer to give to that question in this foru.... oh, it's the domain name. Carry on.

[JacobAldridge]

pg's personal time may face a law of diminishing returns, but the alumni network will scale up in a comparative way. At least, in the 3 year timeframe discussed here.

[tomrod]

I originally got a 404 error and thought it was some kind of prank.

[jerf → tomrod]

Now I'm getting binary gibberish that doesn't seem to be any encoding I can divine? Going straight to http://areallybadidea.com/ has it on the front page, for now.

[geuis]

Its just random broken text. I don't get the joke.