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Y Combinator provides a small amount of seed funding for startups. We work with startups on their ideas and help founders deal with investors and acquirers. We fund four batches of companies each year. Companies apply for the program by...
To apply for the Y Combinator program, submit an application form. We accept companies in batches four times a year. The program includes weekly dinners, office hours with YC partners and access to the network of other YC founders. The...
Gustaf Alströmer is a General Partner at YC. He spent 4.5 years at Airbnb where he worked as a Product Lead on the Growth team, a team he helped start in 2012. Prior to Airbnb, Gustaf was Head of Growth at Voxer, and before that, he was CEO & co-founder of Heysan, which was part of the YC W07...
Today we’re excited to launch an official Hacker News API [https://github.com/HackerNews/API]. [https://github.com/HackerNews/API] We’ve partnered up with Firebase [http://firebase.com] (YC S11) so that the data we’re making available will...
In short: Launch of Hacker News API by Y Combinator in partnership with Firebase offers near real-time data access and mobile optimization. Key benefits include improv... (AI summary)
I used Firebase to build thereelbox.com, and enjoyed it thoroughly. It took 2-3 hours from starting into the documentation to completed/nobugs/pushed to production. Credit for that speed goes entirely to Firebase. TheReelBox uses Firebase as a sort of API caching layer. This protects against rate...
The paper states that although data use is reduced by 58% on average, the page load time is increased by 6%. Smaller pages are typically slower to load though Flywheel however large pages actually load faster. They do lots of interesting...
Pretty impressive results for the terms I searched for. Unfortunately, the design made me temporarily go blind. In all seriousness, the name is pretty horrible and I "feel" as if I am using a website, not a tool. Google feels like a tool - I get in an out quickly, it doesn't invade my flow. Your...