@ycombinator
Y Combinator
24 days
The path to great work: "Choose a field, learn enough to get to the frontier, notice gaps, explore promising ones."
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@ycombinator
Y Combinator
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@matthunter
matt hunter
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@ycombinator I recently discovered a new fractal bud.
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@TheAIFlow
Alin
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@ycombinator "Notice gaps" = hardest step. Most gaps look like noise until you build domain fluency. Real edge: working at frontier + having adjacent field knowledge. Gaps become visible at intersections. Classic: ML + biology = AlphaFold. What's your intersection?
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@hongming731
ginobefun
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@ycombinator “通往卓越工作的路径:选定一个领域,学到能到达该领域前沿的水平,发现其中的空白与不足,然后去探索那些有潜力的方向。”
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@0xBeeSmart
🐝 Neo
24 days
@ycombinator Love this framework. Getting to the frontier isn’t just about learning, it’s about obsessing over the unsolved. Those gaps are where builders shine. Keep pushing until you find one worth filling.
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@Dazzafrazz
Frankenbyte
24 days
@ycombinator This sounds eerily familiar.
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@devmuradahmed
Murad Ahmed
23 days
@ycombinator Exactly, innovation comes from curiosity and courage, not following the crowd.
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@googlewaqas
Waqas | Google Ads Expert
24 days
@ycombinator @garrytan Love how simple the framework is.
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@Chaotic_Paws
ChaoticPaws
24 days
@ycombinator Makes sense why Solana interns never sleep — still trying to ‘get to the frontier’ before it changes version again 😭
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@thevincentfrias
Vicente Frias
24 days
@ycombinator @garrytan I have a great fear of never being able to get there.
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@shawnrbhatti
Shawn Bhatti
23 days
@ycombinator Interesting
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@nicenicenice122
Dark Triad Trope
24 days
@ycombinator This might have worked 20 years ago, but everyone is attempting to do this now.
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@paldeamas
Pedro Aldea
23 days
@ycombinator The hard part is recognizing the promising gaps when you're staring at them. Most of what looks obvious in hindsight was invisible to experts at the time. Pattern matching from past breakthroughs helps less than you'd think.
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@0x2812
hauk
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@ycombinator Step 2 is at least 10 000 hours of hard work, just saying
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@ShashankMi59811
Shashank Mishra
24 days
@ycombinator Amazing 💯
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@dibujoslucas
LucasH Sketch
24 days
@ycombinator Most gaps I chase just turn into pits anyway. But poking weird cracks is where all the actual fun (or disaster) happens.
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@abhishek_srvt
Abhishek Srivastava
23 days
@ycombinator That's how I did, got fascinated by the concept of smart homes in 2018, learned IoT & electronics, faced a real world problem, solved it by building my own smart devices, saw big gaps in the industry, learned AI and LLMs, now building AI-Native platform to solve those gaps 😊
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@afridi_aka1
Ak afridi
23 days
@ycombinator Powerful advice! The frontier is where innovation happens. This approach of identifying gaps and exploring them systematically is the key to breakthrough work. Thank you for sharing this wisdom! 🚀
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@VoteLambright
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@ycombinator I have an idea, I need help programming. It's a decentralized grocery store based on your neighbors selling goods, decentralized bodega's. I leave lots of domains, like https://t.co/6chmyXULXg or https://t.co/Nu28XhFThE. Or call it https://t.co/gElI2ZWlUY like the original.
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@_dan_matos
antonio 🇺🇸
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@ycombinator Amazing advice!🪄
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