I think PG would be the first to tell aspiring entrepreneurs that while being accepted to YC is a strong indicator of future success, a much stronger indicator is relentless drive and determination. This is clearly a case of the latter. Congratulations!
One of the things we're doing is downloading heaps of blog data, processing them, and looking for the misspelled words that occur the most, and adding them to the dictionary. Trying to keep up on some of these Web 2.0 names/terms.
A tool like AtD isn't meant to be a portable websters / virtual grammar nut--it's meant to act as an automated set of eyes and help you spot errors that you didn't intend to make.
he was referring to the actual typo in the headline: "Auttomatic" instead of the correct "Automattic", he wasn't talking about why it had two t's in general