YC created Flock 10 years ago

4 points by YCmadeFlock 5d ago ↗ HN

YC created the company and HN spread total disinformation and propaganda about it to us, blaming governments who actually banned it.

Some local governments have caved and are cutting deals with Flock now though, so it’s all bad.

YC and HN are at the center of it. It’s their company.

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Schlagbohrer 5d ago ↗

Big if true

tobylane 5d ago ↗

https://whoistheownerof.com/who-owns-flock-safety-complete-o...

Which year did they take part in HN?

gcheong 5d ago ↗

Summer 2017: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flock-safety

simonw 5d ago ↗

Impressive SEO slop content farm they're running there.

giov4 5d ago ↗

omg, feels like I should delete my HN account now.

nateb2022 5d ago ↗

> HN spread total disinformation and propaganda about it to us, blaming governments who actually banned it

Source?

simonw 5d ago ↗

"YC created X" is a bit of a misleading framing, as is "it's their company".

Flock were part of the YC Summer 2017 batch: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flock-safety

"YC funded Flock" is a more accurate representation.

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies lists 6,202 funded companies now. I'm sure anyone on HN could find at least a few there that they fundamentally disagree with.

bix6 5d ago ↗

Why do you need a burner to post this?

I dislike flock too but bring receipts.

neoecos 5d ago ↗

True, I was in that batch. But the company was more about neighbors associations

Muromec 5d ago ↗

I like how flock exists, but idea of centralized and controlled system of physical and digital ids used in Europe is somehow controversial. Maybe this is what cyberpunk was all about?