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My advice, as someone applying, is to spend a lot of time reading and filling out the application. Iterate on it a lot. Print it out and hand it out to your fam
by Wolf_Larsen 16y ago
My advice, as someone applying, is to spend a lot of time reading and filling out the application. Iterate on it a lot. Print it out and hand it out to your families, or better, your professors. "Do you know what we are going to make from this?".
Assure that any demo links you have are direct and catered to YC looking at them. "Hi YC, this is our demo! Its as simple as possible but if it crashes or something here is a mockup : http://dating-site-for-knife-lovers.co.us/mockup.png http://dating-site-for-knife-lovers.co.us/mockup.png.
Make sure your answer to "Describe some time you hacked a non-computer system..." is good. Think about that a lot on your off time (I think its the hardest and intriguing question I've ever been asked, and I think about it all of the time).
DO NOT BE A USED CAR SALESMEN on the application. Be a scientist.
Anyway: http://ycombinator.com/howtoapply.html http://ycombinator.com/howtoapply.html
- pg 16y agoIt's surprising how often people answer the question about having hacked some non-computer system by saying that they never have. This just can't be true. Our 2 year old already has 1001 tricks for getting what he wants.
- tomjen3 16y agoBut to say that you have hacked some non computer system, wouldn't it require you to have invented the hack? Because as smart as your two year old is, he probably didn't invent the technics.
- zck 16y agoIt's probably enough to have independently invented the techniques -- it's not like pg is going to stand up at the interview and yell that there was unpublished prior art in a Swahili book from 1902 explaining the same technique you came up with on your own.
- stcredzero 16y agoBecause as smart as your two year old is, he probably didn't invent the technics. Sometimes, the real accomplishment is in the implementation.