>> isn't like this our goal here??? I mean we are comment on YC site that produce startup aiming just that
NO! I've been here long enough to remember PG saying to build something people WANT. YC has become less about technical founders building an MVP and more about the investors finding something they can make money from. The later often depends on "monetization" which has become the driver of enshitification, which is precisely the opposite of what people want and the antithesis of what YC once was.
Agree; though it's not just a change in the type of people involved in YC, the actual people - Paul Graham included - have changed dramatically. When I look at PG's essays over time I see an obvious shift from someone trying to explain th HOW (often naively or inaccurately, but usually genuine) to someone trying to rationalize the WHY of positions, ideas and actions that seem inconsistent and at odds with the hacker sensibility.
I think we should just embrace the fact that more money is made from worse products, and we live in a system where the point is to make as much money as possible. If you don't like that, you should campaign to change the system, not just complain about the people doing it.
NO! I've been here long enough to remember PG saying to build something people WANT. YC has become less about technical founders building an MVP and more about the investors finding something they can make money from. The later often depends on "monetization" which has become the driver of enshitification, which is precisely the opposite of what people want and the antithesis of what YC once was.