Open-Sourcing My YC Application (Athens Research, W21)
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Open-Sourcing My YC Application (Athens Research, W21)
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Re: Open-Sourcing My YC Application (Athens Research, W21)
#2Did you also apply in the batch before your successful application?
Re: Open-Sourcing My YC Application (Athens Research, W21)
#3Did you also apply in the batch before your successful application?
This was my first application to YC.
Re: Open-Sourcing My YC Application (Athens Research, W21)
#4Oh, that application sounds familiar.
A mention for those who helped a bit on the application as a token of appreciation would had been nice...
Re: Open-Sourcing My YC Application (Athens Research, W21)
#5who at YC did you talk to and get help from before applying?
Re: Open-Sourcing My YC Application (Athens Research, W21)
#6If you dont mind me asking, what happened to Athens ? Why did it shut down ?
Re: Open-Sourcing My YC Application (Athens Research, W21)
#7wow! the YC application has changed quite a bit since the early days. Employment history and "Should you be selected for interview, we may ask for references"!
Re: Open-Sourcing My YC Application (Athens Research, W21)
#8If you dont mind me asking, what happened to Athens ? Why did it shut down ?
There's an explanation here:
https://twitter.com/AthensResearch/status/159113849137912217...
Basically, looks like they wasted a lot of time building collaborative knowledge graph features, and then realized no one really wanted them. By that point there were mature single-user alternatives and they were no longer competitive.
Re: Open-Sourcing My YC Application (Athens Research, W21)
#9Oh, that application sounds familiar. A mention for those who helped a bit on the application as a token of appreciation would had been nice...
Given that you helped on it, what do you think made it stand out? From just reading through it, to me personally it doesn’t sound super in-depth or convincing, but I’d like to learn what I’m missing.
Re: Open-Sourcing My YC Application (Athens Research, W21)
#10Oh, that application sounds familiar. A mention for those who helped a bit on the application as a token of appreciation would had been nice...
Updated the end of post:
> Shout out to Syrus Akbury (W19), Ian Tien (S12), and Taariq Lewis (S15) for encouraging me to apply and helping me with my application way back when :)
But seriously, thank you so much Syrus! I was thinking about you 3 the whole time while I wrote the post, hoping it would help someone else like how you helped me!