I organize Hackers and Founders, a a meetup in the Bay area: http://www.hackersandfounders.com http://www.hackersandfounders.com We held a meetup last night,

I organize Hackers and Founders, a a meetup in the Bay area: http://www.hackersandfounders.com http://www.hackersandfounders.com We held a meetup last night, and had the founders of Heysan and Snipd talk about the YC funding experience and about having a startup. I was really surprised that out of 40-45 attendees, only about 3-4 were thinking about applying for YC funding. Everybody else was bootstrapping. Some of the guys have really cool web apps that they've built in their spare time like http://www.dabbleboard.com http://www.dabbleboard.com . I wonder if people's attitudes towards getting funded is changing, or if it's just the demographic of the group that we're attracting. Most of the group is fairly ambivalent towards getting funding.