General Catalyst just co-led a $31.5 million seed round into a blatant rip-off of my company, Kled.
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I would typically not speak on things like this, but this level of blatant copycatting is egregious and completely unacceptable, and needs to be made an example of.
This is one of hundreds of YC startups who have conducted this disgusting behavior. Unimaginative slop that continues to get rewarded due to nepotism.
Hired a PM: $8,000/month.
Used Prodsurf: waitlist price.
Same outcome — someone telling you exactly what's broken and how to fix it.
One solo founder shipped the right feature in week 2.
Had 11 paying users by week 5.
No PM. No meetings. No guesswork.
Just Prodsurf running the product decisions.