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

I've recommended a few Farcaster-native projects so far that have resulted in interviews. 

For folks applying, I think YC cares mostly about the team, their unique insight, and proof points that you've made/can make something a small number of people really love. 

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

/quilibrium

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.

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.

Explorer. Code, design, and mountains. Building Shopify. /matallo

I think it was for his prev app before launch/frameboard

/humpty noun 558, augmenting onchain narratives, helping creators grow their audience and make more money, hosting /cryptosapiens

I think I might've early on in eventcaster history but not the last batch!

heard there's a cool event planning app that's 🧨