Yes, music. If not accepted, will pursue ninja assassin career.
Hmm...maybe you should have applied with "ninja assassin" as your idea. I bet pg would sponsor your ninja training if you gave him 2%-10% of the money you made from assassinations.
Ask YC: Did you apply to the Summer YC session?
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Re: Ask YC: Did you apply to the Summer YC session?
#12I did. My thing is Streem: http://streem.us I'm pretty confident in the idea but from what I know about YC I can see a few reasons why they'd be reluctant to select me -- I'm the sole founder, I'm more of a designer than a coder, and the amount of work I've done already makes it unclear what I need another three months to accomplish. I had a lot of fun filling out the application though.
I checked out Streem, I like the design style. I think your home page is great, but then again I am partial to highlighting =) Have you thought about a browser button or bookmarklet?
Glad you like the design. Yeah, bookmarklets are a popular request. A few other missing features are more important right now (post editing, account deletion), but it's definitely on the list.
Awesome Highlighter is a cool idea.
Re: Ask YC: Did you apply to the Summer YC session?
#13I did. My thing is Streem: http://streem.us I'm pretty confident in the idea but from what I know about YC I can see a few reasons why they'd be reluctant to select me -- I'm the sole founder, I'm more of a designer than a coder, and the amount of work I've done already makes it unclear what I need another three months to accomplish. I had a lot of fun filling out the application though.
@izaidi:
We should talk. I'm more of a developer than a designer, with a little marketing mixed in. A recent project is www.searchartgalleries.com
I'm working on an idea that has some commonality with streem. I was wondering if you'd like to talk to see if we could combine forces. Email logan \@\ henriquez.net
Re: Ask YC: Did you apply to the Summer YC session?
#14How many startups are applying for YC these days?
Something over 500
Re: Ask YC: Did you apply to the Summer YC session?
#15We applied with what we think is a pretty big idea related to learning. We've been working on it since last Sept and we can probably launch an initial version around the start of the YC summer session. Our initial launch won't contain the big ideas yet though (we're hoping YC wants to join forces on those :).
Just showed it off today to a guy that runs a local new media group and he was totally floored. That made us feel pretty good, although we're still so nervous to find out about YC tomorrow! Good luck everyone!
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#17Does anyone know if the emails go out one-by-one, or en masse or what the usual is? I'd like to minimize the scope of the checking-email distraction tomorrow.
Good luck to all!
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#18Yes. I've got a really stupid marketing idea for FOSS. My really stupid marketing idea is to actually do some.
I've got a lot of strikes against me. I'm a single founder of a company that needs three partners, with different areas of expertise, to be viable, and I'm not a programmer. Nevertheless, whatever I hear from YC, I'll be appealing for partners in a few days.
Re: Ask YC: Did you apply to the Summer YC session?
#19Yes. I've got a really stupid marketing idea for FOSS. My really stupid marketing idea is to actually do some. I've got a lot of strikes against me. I'm a single founder of a company that needs three partners, with different areas of expertise, to be viable, and I'm not a programmer. Nevertheless, whatever I hear from YC, I'll be appealing for partners in a few days.
What is "FOSS"?
Re: Ask YC: Did you apply to the Summer YC session?
#20Does anyone know if the emails go out one-by-one, or en masse or what the usual is? I'd like to minimize the scope of the checking-email distraction tomorrow. Good luck to all!
I'm pretty sure they all go out at once, at night, like around 9-11pm.