My suspicious is that this is satire, but I'll pretend it's not and if so I like your gusto for publicly criticizing YC, even if I disagree with nearly all your points. I personally think YC has gotten way better over the years, but fun to contrarian read opinions.
Point #3 doesn't seem to be talked about in this thread yet, so let me bring it up:
> Free SaaS and Dev tools...IMO YC should ban them
YC's #1 investment of all time (https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/) is a SaaS/dev tools company (Stripe), and nearly 50% of their top 20 fit this category. Also, ViaWeb fits that category as well. Are you suggesting they should stop investing in their most successful category, the category they know best?
Point #3 doesn't seem to be talked about in this thread yet, so let me bring it up:
> Free SaaS and Dev tools...IMO YC should ban them
YC's #1 investment of all time (https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/) is a SaaS/dev tools company (Stripe), and nearly 50% of their top 20 fit this category. Also, ViaWeb fits that category as well. Are you suggesting they should stop investing in their most successful category, the category they know best?