What are you building / what idea did you apply with?
How?
We only offer one product - a smart checking account that acts as a financial advisor + planner. (Think of your finances on autopilot).
For every other product or financial service, we refer you to the best in class offerings by other companies.
Need a loan? We'll find a new loan at the cheapest terms possible, or automatically look for refinancing opportunities as your financial condition improves. Need to plan for retirement? We'll find the best retirement service providers that suit your needs.
Check us out on fixbanking.com.
Goodluck everyone!
1) Full Emergency Funds - Ability to cover life's unexpected twists. (40% of Americans owe collectors money for times they were sick).
2) Not swimming backwards - A manageable debt profile that has no high interest debt.
3) Ability to retire at a "reasonable" age - Not all of us will be able to stop working at 67, but all of us should be able to retire and cover all of our retirement expenses before our bodies give out.
As a solo founder this time around, I built Rap Genius for movies & TV shows: https://www.spoiled.tv
How are you acquiring user reviews? Paid traffic? Looks like you've got a good amount of views and content already!
Traffic-wise, I went viral a few times on reddit. The content I did myself and I paid some UCLA undergraduates to write, but working on programmatically seeding it from IMDB.
Here's a demo article on net neutrality! https://sourcedfact.com/a/net-neutrality-how-we-got-here
When it comes to media, trust by brand is breaking down. Media outlets can't expect their audience to just trust their assertions because of their big name anymore. That used to work when there were only a handful of outlets that any given person would be exposed to, making it possible to assign mental trust values to these outlets.
To re-earn their audience's trust, outlets have to start "showing their work", in other words making their fact-checking openly and collaboratively reviewable.
Good luck all!
Our goal for developers is to help them better manage their careers. Developers will be able to use this tool to build their professional brand, network more effectively, and when they're open to it, get compensated for engaging in phone screens about highly targeted job opportunities.
Our goal for tech companies is to completely replace recruiting agencies (who charge up to 25% of the salary of a landed hire) by providing hiring managers with the tools to connect directly with the right developers.
Here's an early prototype of our profile product: https://www.fizbuz.com/u/jesswest
We're pretty early, but already have 150+ developers signed-up on our wait list and are onboarding new folks every day. Feel free to check us out!
Why is it important to empower designers?
We believe that user experience creates revolutions. There were smartphones before the iPhone, yet the mobile revolution started by the innovative user experience that Apple invented.
In our mind, more power to designers will lead to better and better digital products, which will result in more revolutionary products.
Our tools empower designers to express their vision in their language, rather than communicate their vision via mock-ups.
Today we provide tools for Sketch like Auto-Layout, Launchpad, and Timeline. Each of these gives designers more power to own their creations, we automate the front-end work.
Our toolkit is used by more than 70,000 designers and in well-known teams in Apple, Google, Facebook, Netflix and more.
If you use Sketch and haven't heard about us, try us out :)
In the past, I've gotten a rejection email midday (2pm pacific), but now it's after 9pm pacific, and I still haven't heard one way or another...
Don't convince investors about your startup. Convince your customers.
Customers don't care about virtue signals that investors care about: solo founder, your mrr , your qualifications etc.
1% is building the product, 99% is in the execution
Guess I'll find out in 24 hours.
If people in the Bay Area want to go to SPIN tonight and drink and play ping pong while we wait for the results to come in please comment and we'll see if we can setup a last minute event.
Also, if you want to see our hack from the YC Hackathon last weekend here is a link (https://www.facebook.com/OpenSportsInc/videos/21414657827534...) to Sequel Dan (we made an Alexa app that wrote SQL to query questions against our staging database almost as fast as we thought of them)
Good luck to everyone!!
Thought: Nowadays many business models are kind of lame, they just wait for the end user to find their offerings and get in touch with them (often to even get further basic info about the offer that wasn't available on the offer page). But because the amount of information is growing really quickly nowadays(plus duplication of it in different places), you can't really expect a single human being with limited brain memory getting able (in a sane and stress-free way) to go through every single business of interest to find what you're searching for, especially when the data is updated/added day by day. Simple and stress-free platforms(mostly about research for goods or services) for the end user and engaging businesses on the other side at the service of the client will be in great demand in the near future, in my appealing.
Besides the basic text-editing, cloud-sync, and ebook publishing tools you'd expect in a platform like this, there's also a big linguistic model of literary prose, which helps authors analyze the vividness of their writing, and make meaningful comparisons against the authors they admire.
Anyone online can explore the public version of that model, at http://prosecraft.io, but subscribers of Shaxpir can actually analyze their own writing according to the exact same model, getting realtime feedback on the linguistic metrics of their prose.
I launched my beta about 3 years ago, and this is the 3rd time I've applied to YC... I applied to the original Fellowship, in the fall of 2015, and then to Winter 2016 class.
Fingers crossed!
And best of luck to everyone else who applied!!
But even if you don't get accepted this time around, just KEEP WORKING! Eventually, you'll find a way!
The app holds your to-do list and automatically adds a timer function. The timer is activated when your to-do item has a number at the end. As in: "Get to zero inbox 30" That means the task is "Get to zero inbox" and the allotted time is 30 minutes. If that's the top item on the list, the timer starts instantly and automatically, with the full task appearing on your menu bar (This description comes from Mike Elgan 1)
You can check us out at http://www.tryeffortless.com.
Wishing you all good luck!
1: https://elgan.com/blog/two-free-apps-that-take-productivity-...
We are trying to build a better trading platform. Our platform allows non-programmers to do algorithmic trading. We are bringing sentiment analysis, machine learning and a smarter portfolio manager to the masses.
One integrated automatic solution for data collection and data analysis, using off-the-shelf-drones, with 98% detection precision, and 200% productivity as compared to other drone inspection solutions. Purely software.
Good luck to all !
Good luck all!
