@mynameisyahia btw, I still didn't quite understand how your product is different from Firecrawl and tons of similar others.
I'm not criticising, just sharing that allegedly I'm not stupid, but I didn't get it (maybe I need more time spent to read your website carefully).
@sridharfyi@16vchq Cool. Btw, is there a good reason to have your substack content behind a paywall?
I think this is a second time I looked at it and remembered that first time I decided to skip because it's very weird for a VC to have paywalled content which is supposed to attract candiates.
Gabriel, there is significant share of guys accepted to YC that inflate and almost fake what they are doing. It's pretty visible from outside.
YC's and your marketing stance is remarkable. You guys mastered riding the hype very well.
If this accelerates, you will see more Delve and Theranos-like cases, because sweet spot attracts shady people too.
@edwardlando Thank you for sharing.
Unrelated topic - any chance you could make hints in the application form more contrast? they are almost invisible.
This is HUGE news.
PhD astronomer and former NASA engineer Ivo Busko has single-handedly driven a final nail into the coffin of the contamination-based hypotheses (e.g. plate defects and cosmic rays) proposed to explain the VASCO transients. He did so using one of the most creative approaches in astronomy I have ever seen: by analysing pre-Sputnik photographic plates from a German telescope known to suffer from severe optical distortions (aberrations), he demonstrated that the transients appear on these plates and exhibit the same optical distortions as the stars themselves. They are slightly narrower and sharper than the stars, consistent with brief flashes.
This is a crucial result. It shows that the transient light passed through the telescope optics, meaning the transients originate from real objects producing light, rather than from plate defects or cosmic-ray contamination that hit the plate. Dr Busko has also shown that the transients cluster spatially and are associated with periods close to nuclear tests. See the example of the triple transient with optical comas.
This is the greatest gift. Congratulations, Ivo.
I'm happy beyond belief.
Read Ivo Busko's paper: https://t.co/6CT58wnsKJ