Seeing that YC will even fund something as risky as this, I'm going to go ahead and late apply. I have a feeling I shouldn't write that as the reason though ;)
replySeriously though, this is wild. How is this different from those click farms with a wall of phones viewing livestreams or tapping on adds or whatever?
Why would yc fund them given how obvious the risk is ? Esp since a Mac mini farm is capital intense.
replyYC is not some end all be all arbiter of what will succeed. Plenty of YC startups have failed.
replyThis is a "Launch HN" / "YC P26" thread, so YC funded them.
replyIf YC didn't fund this particular idea, they funded the team to pursue some earlier idea that the team then pivoted from to try this one.
In any case, the team needs to pivot. This idea is lighting cash (and time) on fire.