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Would you recommend getting cofounders first and then iterating on different possible ideas, or finding an idea that resonates with users first and then approaching people you know about founding a company around it?
Hi Sam, What are some actions people like myself can take to push our community, nation, and world towards Basic Income? This is particularly important to me because of how fast Uber/Tesla are rushing towards fully autonomous vehicles. Over 4 million jobs in US alone are as drivers. They're all gonna be laid off soon.
We have regular meetups in San Francisco, and are looking for more organizers around the country to collaborate with on Basic Income Create-a-thons. And if you're in a different country, we might be able to connect you with advocates closer to you. There are a ton of interesting, active projects going on right now around the globe.
We recently hosted a talk by Matt Krisiloff, who is managing YC Research's basic income program, and are really excited to see how it develops.
Shoot us an email at questions@universalincome.org if you want to learn more!
Any advice or observations regarding doing one's first startup in one's 30's and up?
Bezos did it, I believe.
Hey Sam! We're disrupting a $3.2B information market, full of old slow tech. We've received encouragement from YC alum to apply and had help with our application, but warned that what we're doing might be too difficult for the average tech person to grasp and be vetted out for this reason. We have 11k in revenue from our first sales cycle and 200% mom user growth. Any recommendations on how we can make sure we get he…
Problem with this sort of work is that it's generally incremental and has zero immediate effects. In other words, there's no way in hell anyone's going to fund me even on principal. Philanthropists? Nah. YC types? Nope. AVs? heh. Volunteers? Eh. The only way I've found to make it happen is to apply some sort of gamification (ads, app selling), which switches motivation from helping all, to only helping those with a smart phone or easy access to internet.
"No shit, you're asking for free work." is pretty common, but I have a persistently hard time believing it's 100% systemic.
Any thoughts on building capital for a company whose goal is in helping low income areas using YC-loved technology without any expectation of direct income?
(Two examples:
Find/Contest bad parking tickets in Chicago. Work in progress with a newly created team of 3: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/red-bin/chitickets/master/...
Mapping domestic violence shelters in US, as this exists nowhere else : https://red-bin.github.io/ (unfinished) )
Here's my side project -
It lets developers browse, understand and document source code via browser.
Here are a few examples Doc/Xref source code it can generate:
* WASM code in the newly release v8 Engine source.
http://www.srcmap.org/sd_share/7/2f4b60db/v8_JS_Engine_WASM....
* Start up script Code trace in Android AOSP code. (10GB of source)
http://www.srcmap.org/sd_share/7/f772faae/Android_AOSP_Platf...
* ES 6 code trace in v8 Engine.
http://www.srcmap.org/sd_share/7/c2018475/v8_ES6_features.ht...
The single binary is hosted in $5 / month VPS in DO. (I am cheap and don't like to burn $.)
Soon anyone can download it and run it on their PC/Laptop. Free to individual, $ for team.
What do you think? Good enough for YC?
What are the main levers and milestones?
I've been following you and @paulg as well as many other YC members for a long period and I'm quiet confident that you'll adhere to the vision/idea behind a project that I'm about to start this year. Do you recommend that I apply for YC really early, like now, just to present the idea ? Or should I develop it and apply with a prototype ? Or should I launch it and then apply ? In which case can YC help the idea to hav…
