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@alola123 I don’t invalidate their feelings. It’s completely fair to have those feelings, it’s just not the emotional profile YC is looking for. YC isn’t built to validate people’s emotions, but to find the best founders in the world. You might have doubt in whether or not something will work...

@spiritualhuman The fact that a YC rejections makes you consider giving up, tells you why YC has rejected you. You have zero conviction and look for outside validation. That’s not how great products are built, and not how great founders work. Your users are who should tell you to quit

@harley I always send the public financials available from my countries tax authorities, when I am requiring a 10% retainer

@sweetheart1 Get your metrics up. Pre-seed or seed stage?

@ams59 Exactly. And what use case did I describe? And what did you tell me it was?

@ams59 Read up on you startup history, mate ;)

@ams59 End users can use any of the thousands of b2c cloud storage solutions that exist to save their photos and then share links. But Instagram found network-effects in making that easy.

@iam815518 Instagram is an s3 wrapper

@anhphuong Well, you’re not entitled to get something off the ground just because you want to. With 3D printers, you should be able to build the first 10 by hand. That should reduce the cost to something you could fund on your own.

@youb4me No it’s not. The reason why? That’s what YC would tell you too. I’m not saying don’t apply to YC, I am saying you don’t win by getting accepted into YC, so that should not be your focus. The great thing about being focused on the stuff I mentioned? You’d improve your odds of getting...

@aliciaew Forget about getting accepted into YC, build product, talk to users, grow your metrics. YC is not what makes you succeed, your determination and focus is.