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Curious about the story behind applying to YC as a founder and ending up as a moderator for hacker news.
Curious about the story behind applying to YC as a founder and ending up as a moderator for hacker news.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20643052 - Aug 2019 (777 comments)
You would say that, wouldn't you?
It would be nice to be told roughly what the process is before having to 'sign up'.
The process is that you fill out a form and make a 1 minute video* and click 'submit'.
(* I know...I hated the video thing too... but it gives a sense of what someone is like that doesn't come through in text, and you just talk for a minute about what you care about. nothing fancy.)
(edit: also, if you're the type of founder that my post is trying to reach - the video is very much in your interest. Other people can see potential in you that you don't see in yourself, even after just a minute. Especially because the people reviewing applications have massive amounts of experience with this.)
Samosa because they are versatile across many dimensions: ingredients, taste, shelf-life, and can be easily made in a combinatorics space of these dimensions. They are kind of like how Bubba describes shrimp to Gump.
I once wondered if YC is a good platform for such a business?
you need to graduate from the "right school/alumni" and i would discourage anybody else from wasting their time
This is the equity deal: https://www.ycombinator.com/deal
What if I don’t want to raise any more than the 7% (which in itself is $125k I don’t really need but happy to give 7% for the higher P(success))
What if I want to bootstrap from that point or at least keep options open?
Another (is this bogus?) reason for not applying is I am not in the US and would prefer not to migrate there due to family. Can a founder do YC with minimal time in USA or even do it remotely.