Stephan
@stephancill
Didn’t YC themselves say ideas that are just “X for Y” typically ngmi?
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shazow
@shazow.eth
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".
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Stephan
@stephancill
something about needing to describe your startup in terms of another startup has ngmi energy
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shazow
@shazow.eth
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
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Stephan
@stephancill
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
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shazow
@shazow.eth
isn't that screenshot from bookface, an internal VC page?
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Stephan
@stephancill
it's on the yc website yeah. i guess yc doesn't care about being able to concisely describe your company independently of another company and i'm confusing that advice with another vc https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?query=cursor
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shazow
@shazow.eth
gotta use the best language for the respective audience
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