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How critical is it to have a technical founder? and what constitutes technical? I've applied this year with a team but none of us are competent programmers. Th
by camdykeman 16y ago
How critical is it to have a technical founder? and what constitutes technical? I've applied this year with a team but none of us are competent programmers.
Thats not to say we're incompetent. Two of us have the beginner knowledge of university intro courses, but not the level of knowledge we would need to actually create our project.
Is our current ignorance the kind of thing that will get us ignored or overlooked?
And while you were there did you hear of any other teams with non-technical founders?
This is my biggest worry so I'd be interested to get more info.
- webwright 16y agoCan't speak for YC, but I can tell you that everyone in our group had at least 1 badass hacker on their team. I've never heard of a hacker-free team going thru YC. My guess is that you'd need some pretty outstanding accomplishments on your app to overcome it, but I'd wager it's theoretically possible.
- shii 16y agoHarj and Kulveer from Auctomatic were the sole exception but had a bit of a unique situation as pg says here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2325376 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2325376
- camdykeman 16y agoin that case (and obviously this will just be personal opinion but I would appreciate it anyway) do you guys think it would be best to make note of my currently limited skills somewhere on the application and explain that Id be willing to learn what I need to learn? or would you suggest not mentioning it unless asked? currently on the application there is no space to explain these things, just a yes/no tab "if any of the following are true", nontech backgrounds being one of the characteristics mentioned within a group of criteria.