I wanted to apply last fall but my day job prevented me from building anything demoable in time and, being in Russia and not having any hacker reputation (I'm b

I wanted to apply last fall but my day job prevented me from building anything demoable in time and, being in Russia and not having any hacker reputation (I'm bachelor of Economics, worked in management consulting) I figured I had no chance to get in. My job was steadily taking about 14 hours a day and some of the weekends so in December I eventually quit in order to keep my sanity, then started learning PHP, MySQL, nginx, etc. and by now I've came close to releasing alpha (a couple of weeks, I think).