Founders

We are doing our first ever YC Fall Batch. 

Applications are due August 27 and the batch starts September 29. If you’re ready to start your company now you don’t have to wait til our Winter batch anymore. 

It’s time to build your dreams. Let’s go 🚀 

https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/yc-fall-2024?1

alright folks who's going to be the first team to do YC with a farcaster app?

alright folks who's going to be the first team to do YC with a farcaster app?

https://warpcast.com/garrytan/0x064e8b47

YC is interesting but the on site rule ruins it for me — expecting founders to uproot their lives for three months is a selection bias that picks mostly young, able-bodied people with no kids or family that needs care. Their dismissal of the remote batches as soon as it was no longer basically required shows they are disinterested in making it work.

BDFL of Quilibrium, Eng @ Farcaster, ex-Coinbase, always opinionated, never hydrated

/quilibrium

they did the remote batches during covid, then once society decided the pandemic was over they went back to in person.

the programming of YC is great for new founders, but the value of YC that makes founders return for future batches is the exposure, and the network (and the backchannels)

I think the actual programming of YC can probably be put online and widely shared. But the feeling of being in the room, talking to people live, making friends with the batchmates and partners, getting into the SF tech scene, it's hard to do that online. There are real benefits to being IRL for that stuff.

That said I agree it's not easy for everyone to uproot their lives and move cities, and they shouldn't have to in order to build a successful startup and to join that network, since most of our interactions are online anyways.

so maybe they'll do a "remote friendly" batch format in the future where you travel in once a month or every two weeks or smth, and for those few days have a lot of stuff going on.