We were a team of two founders, me being the developer and the other cofounder, a marketing/sales girl. Ours/mine is a crowdsourced based non-profit startup in its early stages of development.
Due some reasons, she quit on the startup and I am now the only founder left in the company, I'm really determined to go ahead and apply for YC. I have been working relentlessly to get to a shape.
I was wondering if this happened to anyone before and if yes- how did you manage to compensate the loss(may be for a good reason).
PS: For the curious, here is my original ask hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9267658
# What it about Awethu - a Crowdsourced solution to facilitate and improve transportation infrastructure in 3rd world / developing countries.
# Current status We are still in the early stage of development, i.e., Only mockups/prototype is ready. The "proof-of-concept" is still in its early stages.
Question is: Does this have a major impact on our app ? If it does - How can we improve our odds AND Have you heard of any YC-Alum at the same stage at the time of application and got in?