Show HN: Generate your YC application with GPT-4
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Show HN: Generate your YC application with GPT-4
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Re: Show HN: Generate your YC application with GPT-4
#2Hey HN, just sharing a tool I made over a long weekend to help founders generate completed applications for popular funds like YC, Seedcamp, etc.
Just enter the name of your startup, along with a brief description of the service + founders, and it will use GPT-4 to create an application that takes into account the requirements of your chosen accelerator.
Re: Show HN: Generate your YC application with GPT-4
#3Love this! Have you looked at a service for completing grant applications?
Re: Show HN: Generate your YC application with GPT-4
#4Love this! Have you looked at a service for completing grant applications?
That's not something I've considered, but love the idea!
Initial assumption is that there could be a ton of overlap (e.g. select a research area + provide a brief description of your hypothesis/planned experiments to generate the application).
Are there any nuances / complexities I'm missing? What do you find to be the most time consuming part about writing these applications?
Re: Show HN: Generate your YC application with GPT-4
#5Love this! Have you looked at a service for completing grant applications?
That's not something I've considered, but love the idea! Initial assumption is that there could be a ton of overlap (e.g. select a research area + provide a brief description of your hypothesis/planned experiments to generate the application). Are there any nuances / complexities I'm missing? What do you find to be the most time consuming part about writing these applications?
There are a bunch of different expectations depending on the types and agencies. I suggest starting at SBIR.gov then really happy to help in any way. Most time consuming part is tailoring the answers to all of the sections.
Re: Show HN: Generate your YC application with GPT-4
#6Love this! Have you looked at a service for completing grant applications?
That's not something I've considered, but love the idea! Initial assumption is that there could be a ton of overlap (e.g. select a research area + provide a brief description of your hypothesis/planned experiments to generate the application). Are there any nuances / complexities I'm missing? What do you find to be the most time consuming part about writing these applications?
And one for reviewing grant applications please
Re: Show HN: Generate your YC application with GPT-4
#7Wow looks cool.
Dumb question(s): do you store my data? does anyone have access to it? can you or anyone associated with the app other than myself read my data?
Re: Show HN: Generate your YC application with GPT-4
#8I just wouldn't use this. I think when applying for things like jobs or funding, you want to write every single word yourself. Because
* Honesty
* They can see how you think/write
* The process of writing is thinking. Your application to YC might make you rethink some things about your business. Like a forcing function.
* Writing the application is a form of preparation
* You might get caught out with something false in the application that was generated and you missed the mistake. E.g. "we doubled our users last month" or something.
Re: Show HN: Generate your YC application with GPT-4
#9Wow looks cool. Dumb question(s): do you store my data? does anyone have access to it? can you or anyone associated with the app other than myself read my data?
Not a dumb question at all imo, it’s missing from the info. At the very least sent to OpenAI which is affiliated with YC
Re: Show HN: Generate your YC application with GPT-4
#10Wow looks cool. Dumb question(s): do you store my data? does anyone have access to it? can you or anyone associated with the app other than myself read my data?
No, I don't store or read your data. State is managed using your browser's local storage. The caveat being that the tool uses GPT-4, so your data will be sent to OpenAI via an AWS Lambda function.
However, upon purchasing PitchPal you will also be emailed a compiled version of the app that you can run on your local machine, using your own OpenAI API key.