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OpenAI has now made it possible for ordinary people to create wrappers. I said it here - that it will happen. I thought openAI will charge more, they didn't, instead they opened the market to the general public. With one blow, openAI has killed all wrappers (such wisdom). And now, YC's $500k...

Thinking of building a curated & community-backed resource hub of time-tested startup articles (from YC library and beyond) and with improved search. Would this be something that’s useful for guiding founders? Especially early stage ones. Genuinely interested in helping the startup community...

Finish building out an mvp. I’ve gotten really far by myself but I am working full-time and I’m traveling with my partner for the next week and a half and was thinking to hire a contractor to finish building what I’m almost done with so I can actually have peace of mind while traveling. I’m a...

I’m bringing a new CFO to my company with over 35 years of experience as a finance leader. We’re negotiating the vesting schedule and we’re talking about a 7% with 30% immediate vesting and 70% after we close our first deal. I’m not sure if this vesting schedule would be good but at the same...

I incorporated with Stripe Atlas in Delaware. I own 100% of 10,000,000 shares. I'm trying to transfer 5% to someone. Stripe is recommending lawbite who offer the service for $549USD. This is more expensive than incorporating with Stripe Atlas which cost $250USD. Is there a cheaper way to...

We have 4,000 people on a waitlist for our upcoming B2C app. Our team has a collective 20 year of consumer marketing but not much with apps. Beyond A/B different channels to reduce cac & ltv, does anyone have any tips or readings that can help our journey. Would love any organic marketing...

Came here to share some thoughts from beyond the fundraising veil, and hopefully see what the rest of the more experienced founders here think! It took me two years of bootstrapping to raise my first ONE MilLiOn dOlLaRs. It’s not hyperbole to say that a few years before that I would have very...

I have 2 startups, one is in social-accounting-education platform which makes $420k profit this year (9 months old) with 3 employees and no investors yet. I believe in 2024 our profit will be around $1.2 Mio. And the other one is a land regeneration company that I recently started (3 months...

So me and my co-founders have applied for the W24 batch, with what we think it’s a good and very relevant idea in our region, continent and other emerging countries that are dependent on agriculture. So we basically link up investors and small to medium scale farmers. Applied well before the...

I applied last minute (like, literally 8:59) & have been wondering whether anyone who applied earlier already got interview invites (I assume rejection emails will not be a thing since there’s technically 2 months till deadline…).

Spending as little time as possible worrying about this process but figured I’d check in and see how all of my fellow applicants are feeling. Only a few more days to go until we have a definitive answer! Those without interview invites, how are you feeling about your odds? We’re still waiting...

As many are still curiously awaiting for the response from YC, is there any ways to understand if all the invites for interview already sent out?

YC W24 AI companies tracker

There is of course the startup directory, but I couldn't find a spreadsheet version of it and being a spreadsheet person, created one: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/181GQmXflgMCCI9awLbzK4Zf0uneQBKoh51wBjNTc8Us/edit#gid=0

Hey guys, How can you go to the US as a British citizen and cofounder of a startup? I own less than 50% of the company and the other shareholders are not British. So I don’t qualify for an E2 visa. I don’t qualify for an O-1 visa either because apparently they don’t care what I’ve done as a...

I have created a profile on y combinator and been applying for jobs , Also I have been reaching out to them , But until now I haven’t received any response back , for context I’m applying for hardware engineering roles which relatively would get less applicants. Any one observing a same trend ?

.. no YC partner visited the website even once, or visited by Linkedin profile either. That was insulting :F edit: Saw a pageview from San Jose, CA

Is there a predefined (e.g., 0.1% - 2%) percentage for how much equity one should offer to the advisor?

For a B2C business, why not have a low-tier option that lets users bring their own API keys? You can charge a fair subscription price without worrying about power users, and API usage is transparent to everyone. Of course, this wouldn't work if you need to use features tied to your account...

Working for startups the past 6 years I have noticed a pattern where leadership priority is delusional from my perspective. * We seem to be surprised when our schedules continually slip despite it being brought up that our schedules are very opportunistic when they are first made. * We pick...