<story><title>The Startup Party Is Over</title><url>http://news.quelsolaar.com/#post111</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nlh</author><text>I rarely get such a viscerally negative reaction to reading something as I did reading this article.&lt;p&gt;The party is not over. It’s never over. There are always always always more ideas, great businesses waiting to be built, and wonderful opportunities for clever people.&lt;p&gt;Of course the “obvious” apps&amp;#x2F;website have been built — do you know why?  Because they only seem obvious in retrospect - most weren’t obvious at the time they were built. And even if they were, implementing was harder than you’d think and adoption was even harder.&lt;p&gt;Argh this frustrates me so much.&lt;p&gt;HNers:  Don’t give up - don’t throw in the towel, and definitely don’t assume there are no more ideas to build with a good brain and a keyboard at your disposal.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Startup Party Is Over</title><url>http://news.quelsolaar.com/#post111</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>askafriend</author><text>Discord - publicly launched 2015&lt;p&gt;Robinhood - publicly launched 2014&lt;p&gt;Airtable - publicly launched 2015&lt;p&gt;Plaid - founded May 2013&lt;p&gt;Nextdoor - publicly launched 2012&lt;p&gt;Opendoor - founded 2013&lt;p&gt;Keeptruckin - founded 2013&lt;p&gt;Samsara - founded 2015&lt;p&gt;Calm - founded 2012&lt;p&gt;Niantic - founded 2010, first launch in 2012 (Ingress) then Pokemon Go in 2016.&lt;p&gt;Quip - founded 2015, acquired by Salesforce for ~800mm.&lt;p&gt;All examples of ~multi-billion dollar companies founded in Silicon Valley in the past few years solving real problems and scaling fast.&lt;p&gt;I can keep listing more but I think my point has been made.&lt;p&gt;Sure the market is more mature, but there&amp;#x27;s still tremendous potential out there and there always will be. It&amp;#x27;s too convenient to think all the easy problems have been solved (but yes, many have) and that the big guys will crush you (but when is that &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; a possibility?).&lt;p&gt;I think this article is just pessimistic with no substance. It&amp;#x27;s quite fashionable to be pessimistic about Silicon Valley.</text></comment>