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Hello, We are currently building conversational AI for E-commerce Search and analytics. Customers of these e-commerce companies can search for products in a conversational way using natural language prompts. We developed an MVP and we want to reach out to e-commerce companies to find...

I am trying to get companies to have conversations with me. I am building HR related products. I emailed a lot of people 200+ and dm on LinkedIn a lot as well but I don’t get a single reply. I am not asking for anything except a small 1 min survey feedback. How do I attract potential customers...

Launching an MVP in a couple weeks for a social network mobile app. Have been working hard and super excited but unsure everything we need to be compliant with any legal/privacy issues. We're going to send it to family and friends but because of the social nature, we want to make sure that we...

isitfit is my startup's MVP. It's a downloadable command-line tool that analyzes the utilization of an AWS EC2 account and gives recommendations on how to improve server selection. This reduces costs while maintaining the same performance. The asciinema demo is at...

(my team got rejected after interview this round. all of you who did as well, we still got this ! ) I’m collecting emails for businesses in our current target slice. I’m thinking of sending a batch of sales email to a subset offering $10/mo for a service we will eventually provide but via . And...

I always wanted to build startups eventually and actually tried and failed once in college. I have no background as my schools are no-names As I’m graduating, I have two offers at hand: A founding engineer position at a seed-stage startup An entry level SWE position at Amazon Both has pros...

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I've seen some really cool AI consumer startups Reference: This post on YC (W24) AI consumer startups However, I Marketplace Startups like DoorDash, InstaCart & Airbnb have always been the major disruptors of consumer behaviour - These ones require human interaction so I'm always wondering...

TL;DR SAFEs are a creative alternative to priced equity rounds or debt SAFEs, unlike convertible notes, are not debt, do not carry interest, do not have a maturity date SAFEs convert to equity when the company raises a priced round in the future or is sold Pre Money is the company’s valuation...

I reached out to several YC founders to review my application; they shared some valuable feedback and here is how it went. Stats: 1) Contacted YC Alumni = 15 2) YC Alumni's that actually responded = 5 3) YC Alumni's that recommended = 2 Did we get in? Does not look like it, que sera sera...

Could be a bit reckless ? Considering I’m already full time on my startup. No 9-5 job. I’m certain the chance at mentorship, and the community is worth more than the 500k.

We got an interview invite today for https://artisan-ai.com!

I keep hearing this statistic, can some better define it for me? Like does success mean exit where founders get x dollars? Success seems arbitrary. And is that at 1 year mark? I get that validating PMF greatly increases the odds of success, too much market saturation decreases odds, crappy hard...

YC's Demo Day was last week, and with it comes another deluge of AI companies. A record-breaking 139 startups were in some way related to AI or ML - up from 112 in the last batch...

Hey everyone. I recommend not going with Stripe Atlas to open an entity 'cause it's more expensive and less flexible than if you do it with different services. You need to open a registered agent. I used this service. They also provide a cheaper phone number service (it's necessary to operate...

Which of these would you choose and why? Clerky Stripe Atlas Firstbase.io Gust

Hi everyone, I hope this can resonate with someone and they are willing to share their feeling or help me understand where I'm thinking wrong. I've been a startup CEO for 9+ years now with the same group of collegemates. We're all technical and have lots of experience working and even living...

I have bills to pay and I’m eating off my savings while building our startup from basically nothing. I graduated college in 2022 and worked before that, is it possible to work at a YC series B and over company as I’m building our product? Do most people do this? It’s a very real question and I...

Many people are getting into startup eco system and asking so many questions about how to do it and what to do next. I thought I would share my experience and learning. We all have those brilliant ideas that we think could turn into million-dollar or even billion-dollar companies. When we...

Hi there, just had a quick question. We have two ideas that we’ve been working on, and we see the potentials for both of them. Although definitely one has a bigger priority and we’ve finished building the MVP and we are preparing for applying the summer batch. But just wondering, if the first...