As someone who's been skimming "The Four Steps to the Epiphany", I note that your schedule is purely Product Development - there's no Customer Development. Sinc

As someone who's been skimming "The Four Steps to the Epiphany", I note that your schedule is purely Product Development - there's no Customer Development. Since YC is about "building something people want", that second part is equally crucial. Arguably more so. My take on "4 steps" is: do iterative/agile/RAD/MythicalManMonth development (you present a demo ASAP, so the client can tell if that's what they want or not), but to not wait til you have a demo. You iterate on "the customer problem you're solving" and "specs of the product". This is much faster than building a demo, which is faster again than building the whole thing - and only then finding out that the "people want" part is missing. (You build the product concurrently). What you're proposing is an engineering project - which is great! Nothing wrong with that, challenging, lots of fun, lots of learning. Just noting it's focussed entirely on that half of an entrepreneurial project - a common developer approach.