I know this isn't the right forum for anything but enthusiasm, but I cant help feeling that it's getting ever harder to find exciting things to work on.
I can see there's innovation here and hard work but not much is inspiring.
Have you considered energy? We need to switch 87% of our energy sources over the next 40 years in order to stop climate change[1]. It's a ridiculously huge problem that is going to be extremely lucrative for cleantech software companies.
Really? I found the number of innovative healthtech companies to be very inspiring. Standard Cyborg is building a better version of the prosthetic limb for a small fraction of the cost. I think that's awesome.
There's not much - actually no - tech-for-tech's-sake.
I'd guess that's more of a good thing than a bad one.
IMO the bio/med slant and almost (not quite...) complete absence of anything social or IoT is interesting, and possibly an indicator of future YC strategy.
I'm slightly surprised some of these projects think they need YC. E.g. if MashGin is anywhere close to working it's likely going to have investors dropping off big piles of cash at their lab day, night, weekends, and major holidays.
there needs to be a medium.com for rfp/rfi/rfq etcs that has digital signatures, and allows anyone, no matter how little technology experience they have to jump in and make and collaborate on industry documents and contracts.
I can see there's innovation here and hard work but not much is inspiring.