Ask HN: Why Did YC Kill RFS #1: The Future of Journalism?

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11 years ago

The first Request for Startups created by Y Combinator was about the "future of journalism". The original RFS is quoted here [1], but does not appear on the current list [2].

What happened to this RFS? Does YC consider this a solved problem, or alternately, unsolvable? Do they just consider it to be less important than other problems?

I'm curious because I think it's an instructive way to think about the online content market (why are some of the best people in startups apparently no longer interested in the space?), not because I care for the sake of how it would impact an application to YC.

[1] http://www.wordyard.com/2009/08/16/y-combinators-request-for-startups-in-journalism/

[2] http://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/