<story><title>Startcraps</title><url>http://www.brainshave.com/blog/startcraps</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Permit</author><text>-&amp;gt; Work on a medical startup; &amp;quot;Why don&amp;#x27;t any of the founders have a background in medicine, I don&amp;#x27;t trust these guys&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;-&amp;gt; Work on AI; &amp;quot;These guys are peddling vaporware&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;-&amp;gt; Work on connecting people your own age (something you might have domain expertise in); &amp;quot;What a vapid, crappy startup. Work on real problems!&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;-&amp;gt; Work in Finance, at Google or Facebook; &amp;quot;I saw the brightest minds of my generation moving money and selling ads&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I truly hope no one is discouraged by articles like this one. (Also, where are all the much-alluded-to apps for sharing pictures of cats? They&amp;#x27;re so often referenced as evidence of crappy startups that I&amp;#x27;d assume they&amp;#x27;d be more present.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cjjrjd</author><text>Perhaps the real problem is that there is an overabundance of people in software looking for easy money.&lt;p&gt;It may not be a popular thing to say on HN, but in my experience it seems to fit the data.</text></comment>
<story><title>Startcraps</title><url>http://www.brainshave.com/blog/startcraps</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Permit</author><text>-&amp;gt; Work on a medical startup; &amp;quot;Why don&amp;#x27;t any of the founders have a background in medicine, I don&amp;#x27;t trust these guys&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;-&amp;gt; Work on AI; &amp;quot;These guys are peddling vaporware&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;-&amp;gt; Work on connecting people your own age (something you might have domain expertise in); &amp;quot;What a vapid, crappy startup. Work on real problems!&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;-&amp;gt; Work in Finance, at Google or Facebook; &amp;quot;I saw the brightest minds of my generation moving money and selling ads&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I truly hope no one is discouraged by articles like this one. (Also, where are all the much-alluded-to apps for sharing pictures of cats? They&amp;#x27;re so often referenced as evidence of crappy startups that I&amp;#x27;d assume they&amp;#x27;d be more present.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>irremediable</author><text>Well said.&lt;p&gt;FWIW, one of my friends did create a small startup that focuses on sharing cat photos. The app is called &amp;quot;Cat Snaps&amp;quot;. It wasn&amp;#x27;t a waste at all: he spent a few weeks learning the tools, and made a little bit of money from doing so.</text></comment>