On: YC Application Checklist (apps due in 1 week)

[spontaneus]

Thanks for the advice! kapilkale do you remember how many hours (roughly) you put in to your application?

[kapilkale → spontaneus]

20 hours, maybe more.

We hadn't been working on our idea for long, so we had to think about the answers to many of the questions in addition to writing them down.

[wuster → kapilkale]

Thanks for the post!

My group has been collaborating for weeks on our application. I think we must be on our 5th draft by now. At a certain point, I do feel like it's unproductive to keep second guessing how our answers will be parsed - we're just doing our best to listen to the great advice out here on HN, lay out the facts about ourselves, and hopefully make a good impression. Hopefully YC will like what we have to say!

BTW - my group of 3 is quitting Google, Facebook, and Microsoft to pursue our idea, and we will definitely do it with or without YC. It'd just be super nice to get that level of support.

[saygt → wuster]

sounds like a hard-hitting group. Good luck!