Show HN: YC's startup advice, organized and searchable
Hi HN,<p>We are YC rejects (I made it to the interview once!) but have benefited greatly from everything YC has put out to help founders like us. Since YCombinator has shared so much helpful content over the years in all sorts of areas, we decided to put some order around it for everyone’s benefit. The process looked like:<p>- We collected everything YC has put out scattered across different channels (and developed a system to keep it updated)<p>- Categorized it using a hybrid NLP-human approach to uncover key macro and micro categories along with identifying the people behind the advice. The goal was to 1. Aid exploration 2. Be able to quickly find the most relevant advice in any given situation.<p>- Our company (Polymer Search) specializes in converting a spreadsheet (or any structured data set) into a search and insights engine automatically.  That was a huge part of why we decided to tackle this. We used our own beta stack to create YCAdvice.com. The spreadsheet is linked from the site in case anyone wants access to the underlying data (free to use).<p>Would love any feedback and happy to answer any questions.