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Title: Tell HN: Ever think of applying to YC? Do it this weekend for S24

告诉HN：有没有想过申请YC？这个周末做S24

Text: (Usually I put an "Apply to YC" thing in the HN footer [1] but I forgot this time, so here is my pitch to make up for it.)If you've ever thought about applying to YC, here's a tip: just do it. It doesn't take long and could change your life, like it did for me and many others.In particular, if you have either of these two bogus thoughts, ignore them pronto and just go to <a href="https://apply.ycombinator.com" rel="nofollow">https://apply.ycombinator.com</a> and apply:(1) "probably not good enough / won't get in" - you'd be surprised at how many people feel that way, whether because of impostor syndrome, lack of credentials, whatever—and often they turn out to be among the best founders. So this a terrible reason not to apply!The nice thing is, it's YC's job to evaluate that, not yours. They're looking for aptitude which doesn't look like what most people (probably including you) assume. You needn't look impressive, and you don't have to be a competent founder—you learn that from doing YC. Just be yourself as you are, fill out the application and don't worry about it.(2) "too early" - there's no such thing. YC looks for good potential founders—meaning anyone who can learn what they teach—and nothing else. You're already yourself, which is all you need.Some of YC's big successes start off as last-minute applications on a whim; and many start with totally different ideas than what ends up succeeding. It's YC's job to teach you how to play the startup game, and that can start at any time.("Too far along already" is another bogus notion but I'll stick with the top 2 for today.)If you know the game Snakes and Ladders [2], YC is a massive ladder in an area where there are no snakes. Sure it's a dice roll, but what reason do you have not to? If you're uninterested in the game, no problem—but if you have any impulse to participate, do it! If you're the "out of nowhere" type of founder YC loves to fund, your chances are likely a lot better than you imagine.Apply by 8pm PT on Monday 4/22 to get a decision by May 29: <a href="https://apply.ycombinator.com" rel="nofollow">https://apply.ycombinator.com</a>.---[1] like last October - <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231011022307/https://news.ycombinator.com/" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20231011022307/https://news.ycom...</a>[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_and_ladders" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_and_ladders</a>

（通常我会在HN页脚[1]中放一个“应用到YC”的东西，但这次我忘了，所以这是我的投球来弥补它。）<p>如果你；我曾经想过申请YC，这里是；这是一个提示：只要做就行了；不要花太长时间，它可以改变你的生活，就像它对我和其他许多人所做的那样<p> 特别是，如果你有这两个虚假的想法中的任何一个，请立即忽略它们，然后转到<a href=“https://；&#x2F；apply.ycombinator.com”rel=“nofollow”>https://&#x2F；apply.ycombinator.com</a>和apply:＜p＞（1）“；可能不够好；won-7；t get in”-你；我很惊讶有这么多人有这种感觉，无论是因为冒名顶替综合症，还是因为缺乏证书，等等——而且他们往往是最好的创始人之一。所以这是一个不申请的可怕理由<p> 好的是，它；s YC-；我的工作是评估，而不是你的。他们；你在寻找不适合你的才能；看起来不像大多数人（可能包括你）所认为的那样。您不需要；你看起来并不令人印象深刻；你不必成为一个有能力的创始人——你可以从YC中学到这一点。只要做你自己，填写申请表；不用担心；太早”-有-7；It’没有这样的事。YC寻找优秀的潜在创始人——也就是说，任何能学到他们所教东西的人——而不是其他人。您&#7；你已经是你自己了，这就是你所需要的<p> YC-7；它的巨大成功始于一时兴起的最后一刻的申请；许多人一开始的想法与最终成功的想法完全不同。它；s YC-；它的工作是教你如何玩创业游戏，而且可以随时开始<p> （“已经走得太远了”是另一个虚假的概念，但我今天将坚持前2名。）<p>如果你知道《蛇与梯》游戏[2]，YC是一个没有蛇的地区的巨大梯子。当然&#x27；这是掷骰子，但你有什么理由不这样做呢？如果您；你对游戏不感兴趣，没问题——但如果你有任何参与的冲动，就去做吧！如果您；re是“；不知从哪里冒出来”；YC喜欢投资的创始人类型，你的机会可能比你想象的要好得多<p> 在太平洋时间星期一下午8点前申请；22在5月29日前做出决定：<a href=“https://；&#x2F；apply.ycombinator.com”rel=“nofollow”>https://&#x2F；apply.ycombinator.com</a><p> ---<p>[1]像去年10月一样-<a href=“https://；&#x2F；web.archive.org&#x2F，web&#x2F：20231011022307&#x2F”https://；#xx2F；news.ycombinator.com&#x2F“rel=”nofollow“>https://&#x2F；web.archive.org&#x2F；web；20231011022307；https:&#x2F&#x2F；新闻。ycom</a> <p>[2]<a href=“https://；&#x2F；en.wikipedia.org/&#x2F，wiki&#x2F：Snakes_and_rades”rel=“nofollow”>https://&#x2F；en.wikipedia.org&#x2F；wiki&#x2F；蛇和梯子</a>

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bschmidt1: Re: "won't get in"How do I balance this encouraging advice with everything I've heard online about YC basically being a post-Ivy League thing? Seems like there's basically a 0% chance a random person would get into YC. And often those who did get in went to Stanford, Harvard, etc. and don't even have a product - sometimes they don't even know what they're going to build yet.I wrote the idea of VC stuff off long ago. My wife and I have a profitable business here in SF that would be perfect as a startup, but the concept of raising funds to expand literally hasn't even crossed our minds because it seems so geared toward post-grads - like something only Stanford and Harvard people get access to after they graduate.Not only that, we're profitable, and can even articulate a realistic vision about how it becomes the next $100M household name, but the numbers I've read online that most VCs want to see are not realistic - or if we were hitting those numbers I wouldn't even need a VC, we would be able to fund our own expansion.So we're just doing it on our own.

bschmidt1: 回复：“；won-7；t get in&quot 我如何在这个鼓舞人心的建议与我所关注的一切之间取得平衡；你在网上听说YC基本上是后常春藤联盟的东西吗？似乎有；基本上，一个随机的人进入YC的几率为0%。通常那些考上的人去了斯坦福大学、哈佛大学等；甚至没有产品——有时他们没有；甚至不知道他们；我们还要建造 我很久以前就放弃了风险投资的想法。我和妻子在旧金山有一家盈利的公司，作为一家初创公司，这将是完美的，但筹集资金进行扩张的概念实际上并没有改变；我们甚至没有想过，因为它似乎是面向研究生的——就像只有斯坦福大学和哈佛大学的人在毕业后才能接触到的东西一样 不仅如此，我们；重新盈利，甚至可以阐明它如何成为下一个价值1亿美元的家喻户晓的名字的现实愿景，但数字I；我在网上读到，大多数VC希望看到的是不现实的——或者如果我们达到了这些数字，我会；即使不需要风险投资，我们也可以为自己的扩张提供资金 所以我们；我们只是自己做。

Animats: What happened? Not enough people applied?Here's the last batch.[1] Gives a sense of what's being funded.Ideas:- MoneyNow - leverages the new FedNow instant payment system. FedNow is run by the Fed and transfers money in seconds with a charge of just US$0.045 per transaction. And they mean seconds. If the money isn't there in 10 seconds, the transaction times out.
Few banks support it yet, but some do. It needs consumer-facing support. The Fed just does the back end. There's a big security problem with consumer side payments - these are irrevocable no-holds transfers, like cash. Figure out how to handle that. Competes with Venmo and PayPal; could make them obsolete. Venmo isn't really instant; try to withdraw the money you just "received".- Reading Teacher - teach illiterate kids to read with a phone app using AI. Text to speech and speech to text all work now. A true automatic reading teacher should be possible. Gamify it so kids use it. Sell to parents, not schools.- Rust Game Engine - the Rust language ecosystem has some game engines and libraries that almost work, but the open source maintainers got bored and didn't finish the job. Modest amounts of cash would push that over the top. Monetize by selling back-end services for such games.[1] <a href="https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/?batch=W24">https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/?batch=W24</a>

Animats: 怎么搞的？没有足够的人申请 这里；这是最后一批。[1] 给人一种感觉；正在获得资助 想法：＜p＞-MoneyNow-利用新的FedNow即时支付系统。FedNow由美联储运营，几秒钟内转账，每笔交易仅需0.045美元。它们的意思是秒。如果钱是；t在10秒内，事务超时。目前很少有银行支持它，但也有一些银行支持。它需要面向消费者的支持。美联储只是做后端工作。有；这是消费者端支付的一个很大的安全问题——这些是不可撤销的无保留转账，就像现金一样。想办法解决这个问题。与Venmo和PayPal竞争；可能会使它们过时。Venmo不是；不是真的瞬间；试着把你刚才说的钱取出来；接收” -阅读老师-教文盲孩子使用人工智能通过手机应用程序阅读。现在，文本到语音和语音到文本都可以。一个真正的自动阅读老师应该是可能的。把它游戏化，让孩子们使用它。卖给父母，而不是学校 -Rust游戏引擎-Rust语言生态系统有一些几乎可以工作的游戏引擎和库，但开源维护人员感到无聊；I don’我不能完成这项工作。少量的现金将使这一点变得更加重要。通过销售此类游戏的后端服务实现盈利 [1]<a href=“https://；&#x2F；www.ycombinator.com#xx2F；companies#xx2F？batch=W24”>https://&#x2F；www.ycombinator.com&#x2F；公司&#x2F；？批次=W24</a>

eggbrain: I'm going to post something vulnerable, but I hope people take my comment in the right light, as in general I love YC and what it has done for the startup community.I've been building startups for a long time, and have applied to YC several times, mainly with the same idea (although I've always listed 4-5 other ideas I'm interested in as well). I have always gotten rejected, and while that was disappointing, I 100% understood that getting into YC was the exception rather than the rule, as YC had a smaller acceptance percentage than Harvard.After a few batches of these rejections, I decided to take a break from applying and instead build up my startup experience more by working at growth-stage startups, and just in general started focusing on my career as well.Fast forward a few years, and about a year ago YC reaches out to me (via automated email) saying they had identified me as being in the top X% on the Cofounder matching platform, and encouraged me to apply to their next batch cycle.I was reluctant to do so -- I hadn't been thinking too deeply about any new startup ideas in the past few months (so I'd most likely have to apply with a previous startup I had built), but after encouragement from friends and family I decided to take a chance anyways and apply once again.I went all out on the application -- I reached out to some YC friends and mentors to get their recommendations, and had them help me edit and perfect my application as well. I even traveled for a month to San Francisco, just so I could absorb more of the ecosystem, network with as many entrepreneurs as possible, and help give back to the community if I could.I submitted my application, waited for the fateful "interview email" day, and when that day came -- I got the standard "...we're sorry, we're not going to move forward with your application".I'll admit -- getting that email stung. I know looking back there were a lot of things I could have done better (e.g. not applying with the same idea as previous applications, among other things), and just like when I applied years ago, I knew that the chances of getting to the interview stage were slim to none.But yet somehow, that rejection hurt more than any of the others.

eggbrain: I-；我将发布一些脆弱的内容，但我希望人们能正确看待我的评论，因为总的来说，我喜欢YC及其为创业社区所做的一切 I-；我已经建立了很长一段时间的初创公司，并多次申请YC，主要是出于同样的想法（尽管我也总是列出4-5个我感兴趣的其他想法）。我总是被拒绝，虽然这很令人失望，但我100%理解进入YC是一个例外，而不是规则，因为YC的录取率低于哈佛 在经历了几次这样的拒绝后，我决定暂停申请，转而通过在成长阶段的初创公司工作来积累更多的创业经验，总体上也开始专注于我的职业生涯 快进几年，大约一年前，YC（通过自动电子邮件）联系我，说他们已经确定我在联合创始人匹配平台上排名前X%，并鼓励我申请他们的下一个批次周期 我不愿意这么做——我没有；在过去的几个月里，我没有太深入地思考任何新的创业想法（所以我很可能不得不申请我以前建立的创业公司），但在朋友和家人的鼓励下，我决定无论如何都要抓住机会，再次申请 我在申请上全力以赴——我联系了YC的一些朋友和导师，征求他们的建议，并让他们帮助我编辑和完善我的申请。我甚至去了旧金山一个月，这样我就可以吸收更多的生态系统，与尽可能多的企业家建立联系，并尽可能帮助回馈社区 我提交了我的申请，等待命运的&quot；面试电子邮件”；那天，当那一天到来时，我得到了标准的“；。。。我们；对不起，我们；你不会继续你的申请了” I-；I’我承认——那封电子邮件刺痛了我。我知道回过头来看，有很多事情我本可以做得更好（例如，不以与以前申请相同的想法申请，等等），就像几年前我申请时一样，我知道进入面试阶段的机会微乎其微 但不知何故，这种拒绝比其他任何拒绝都更伤人。

js4ever: Got rejected twice. And twice ended up creating great businesses, not billion dollars but profitable enough to have a full team.
It's so much better than VC money!
No stress, you can really follow your ideas, move at your own pace, have a healthy life/work balance.
If you can avoid VCs do it!

js4ever: 被拒绝了两次。两次都创造了伟大的业务，虽然不到10亿美元，但利润足以拥有一个完整的团队。它；这比风险投资要好得多！没有压力，你可以真正遵循自己的想法，按照自己的节奏前进，拥有健康的生活；工作平衡。如果你能避开风险投资，那就去做吧！

chenxi9649: I think one thing that people don't realize is that the YC application process is really one of the best tools for "sharpening" your idea/business.The written applications forces you to articulate your ideas in a concise yet easy to understand way.And as much as YC doesn't recommend this, the mock YC interviews we did with alums was one of those most beneficial things that happened to us. Because so rarely will you get the opportunity to ask dozens of other YC founders to grill your business, and have 80%+ of them say yes.We did about 30 at the time, which is a lot of time to be taken off product/building, hence probably why they don't recommend it, but looking back it *really helped us understand our own business. Given how young/naive/early we were.

chenxi9649: 我认为人们不喜欢的一件事是；t意识到YC应用过程实际上是“；锐化”；你的想法&#x2F；商业p> 书面申请迫使你以简洁易懂的方式表达你的想法 和YC不一样；我不建议这样做，我们对YC校友进行的模拟面试是发生在我们身上的最有益的事情之一。因为你很少有机会邀请其他几十位YC创始人来审视你的业务，而他们中有80%以上的人表示同意 我们当时做了大约30次，这是一段很长的时间来完成产品；建筑，因此可能是他们不；我不推荐它，但回过头来看，它确实帮助我们了解了自己的业务。考虑到年轻；naive；我们很早就到了。