Tech innovation is a cycle, particularly in the primary character-driven international of early-stage challenge capital and copycat nature of startups.

The most recent evidence? Y Combinator this week introduced Release YC, a platform the place other people can type accelerator startups via trade, batch and release date to find new merchandise. The famed accelerator, which has seeded the likes of Instacart, Coinbase, OpenSea and Dropbox, invitations customers to vote for newly introduced startups “to assist them climb up the leaderboard, check out product demos and be told concerning the founding crew,” it mentioned in a weblog put up.

If it sounds acquainted, it’s as a result of — in my standpoint — Y Combinator is taking a not-so-subtle swipe at Product Hunt, a just about decade-old platform this is synonymous with new startup launches and have bulletins.

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Y Combinator doesn’t essentially trust this characterization: The accelerator’s head of communications, Lindsay Amos, instructed me over e mail that “we inspire YC founders to release on many platforms — from the YC Listing to Product Hunt to Hacker Information to Release YC — to be able to succeed in consumers, buyers and applicants.”

The overlap isn’t remoted. As Y Combinator makes a Product Hunt, Product Hunt is making an Andreessen Horowitz. In the meantime, a16z is making its personal Y Combinator. To not point out Product Hunt has funding capital from a16z and previously went throughout the Y Combinator accelerator.