My Y Combinator Interview Experience - W24 Batch 

i really liked the personal reflection and takeaway message here. feeling inspired to think about my goals 💡

Love it that you actually stand for what you believe in, your app is an awesome tool too. What a chad

I looked into entering the PDF AI wrapper space back in May after that PDF wrapper github repo was trending but decided not to because its already super saturated. Looks like it’ll entirely be a marketing and operations play. Best of luck and congrats on launching! I completely agree with your view and life goals. I share the same mindset. All love.

Thanks so much for sharing your experience with YC! I too have had friends and former bosses/colleagues that’s been pushing me to go the VC route. I’m in a similar school of thought as you with the indie hacker route. Have worked at far too many startups stuck in the VC mindset. I’ve always believed there’s a better way to start and build companies without making yourself beholden to investors…

Love ur content man...no pressure to bevome "something"..nothing to prove to any1....just living life the way u want it....thats awesome man

thank for the video man! really good video on the interview process and especially your personal take on this whole chase of Y-C. Im the same as you! I just want to build a small business that i can control.

Check out the new app I'm building here :) nexusresearch.ai/? Also check out my friend's alex & teddy's app here: www.magicpatterns.com/? They're building a generative AI front end component generator! Super useful stuff - plus they are awesome people.

Your thoughts are exactly as mine. I'm thinking of applying to YC just for the experience tough :)

y combinator is for rocketships, totally fine decisions by both parties

I really enjoyed hearing a fresh perspective on this topic. Honestly have a lot of respect for you being able to come to terms with it and knowing what you want. I am curious what you mean by a holding company and what that would look like. Youi mentioned high cash flow, what are areas with high cashflow you are thinking of?

I had a very similar experience. Drinking the bootstrapper / indie hacker kool-aid. Friend got accepted so I figured it'd be fun to do with a friend. Interview went pretty badly because my heart and mind still in indie hacker world. Only difference was I did get a hard no :) So congrats on getting something less firm ha. But yeah, let's build portfolio of smaller stuff and get awesome lifestyle, seems like it has much higher odds of moderate success anyway

I respect this

You’ve been talking for over 6 minutes and in the end you still haven’t explained how was the interview with YC !!! What a waste of time that was 😒

It would be interesting to explain what you did to get this interview, what do you think you had that made them think « This guy is yc material »

I love it - great introspection. I've been thinking about how to do a Berkshire like Warren Buffet, but with small Saas to start. Is there a product to build for conglomerates or other holding companies, or do you find ways to optimize a vertical stack for you saas holding company? -ExFaang guy.

Why should I go to Y combinator? Are they not stealing all Ideas of those who will not accepted?

Thanks for sharing this.

Strong move, big ups to sticking to your goal. What part of the interview made them “like” you as founders ?

Hey! I’m currently in the YC Co-founder matching program and it’s not going well. If you’re open to joining forces and becoming my technical co-founder, let’s chat! I’m sure you heard it all, but this is probably that big idea they’re looking for. Cheers! Ps. I’d like to apply to YC on April 22nd, but solo founders supposedly won’t cut it.

Looked at your Nexus Research company and absolutely love it. I can see a lot of people benefiting from this. Would this be something that can be integrated into other medical apps in the future?

I have an idea but YC didn't accept me because I'm not up to 18

what's your age bro, just curious

great video

I have applied for summer batch 24. Even if they reject me, do you think that they will at least let me know by email?

I wonder if they tell other founders the exact same thing. I doubt they’ll say we don’t like you guys as founders or at least I hope not

Keep up with your ideaology

If you don't mind partnering with a 50yr old non-technical founder from the Caribbean i would love to share my big idea with you. Maybe we can do it together

Are you recording from inside a ship at sea or what? Why does the camera move so much

Dude, I am sorry to say but you got a no. I am not saying the reflection is not 100% genuine and trying YC out seems to have taught you important things. But, there is a difference between almost a yes and a yes.

Maybe you want to do away with the label of "techbro", because it is derogatory, as recently discussed by YC founder Paul Graham. In any case, best of luck to you and your dreams. I am the same way!

should probably just get a job @ a big tech and make a lot of $$$

Just get a job at google or something bro. The tech space is cut throat...stop coping. You seem smart but youre no entrepreneur. A pure entrepreneur knows that their startup has less to do with them and more to do with the world. Startups are meant to make navigating everyday life easier. A consequence of that is if yiur Startup makes things easier for a lot of people then it becomes the next drop box or airbnb. We should stop treating startups like tea shops😢

That's more like no to your idea and yes to your potential