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Y Combinator is an American seed accelerator launched in March 2005 and was used to launch over 2,000 companies including Dropbox, Airbnb, Stripe, Reddit, Optimizely, Zenefits, Docker, DoorDash, Mixpanel, Heroku.
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Heavily inspired by Hacker News. Honestly can't think of a platform with a better community.
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The community provided me invaluable early feedback, tough love where needed, and a steady stream happy early adopters!