Does Y Combinator accept purely app ideas like WhatsApp, Flipboard, etc.?
24th February 2014
My answer to Does Y Combinator accept purely app ideas like WhatsApp, Flipboard, etc.? on Quora
Yes they do, but you’ll need to demonstrate that your team also has the ability to execute on the idea.
More recent articles
- The Summer of Johann: prompt injections as far as the eye can see - 15th August 2025
- Open weight LLMs exhibit inconsistent performance across providers - 15th August 2025
- LLM 0.27, the annotated release notes: GPT-5 and improved tool calling - 11th August 2025