Didn’t YC themselves say ideas that are just “X for Y” typically ngmi?

I think that's confusing what YC actually said. "X for Y" is a fine shorthand when explaining something, but the goal should be to become X other people use when they say "X for Y".

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

shazow.net

Currently: WhatsABI

maybe effective describing to a vc that already has that context. most of the target audience for these companies don't know what cursor is so you'd waste your time describing it that way

fortunately i looked at their websites and only the cursor for designers one referred to itself on its website as "cursor for designers", the rest were more descriptive

effective for communicating though, how else do you describe something in 3 words?

using 30 words to describe something that could have been 3 words is definitely ngmi :p

something about needing to describe your startup in terms of another startup has ngmi energy