1) Starting small is often the best route to doing something big. Starting small gives you the ability to complete something and not run out of steam along the

1) Starting small is often the best route to doing something big. Starting small gives you the ability to complete something and not run out of steam along the way. 2) Ideas don't need to be mind blowing, they need to be good and for them to work well in a business they need to be solving some sort of problem that will result in you getting paid. 3) That could be a huge problem for your motivation. Is there some subset of the idea that you could run with and think a little bigger than they currently are? Finding the right co-founders is much harder than finding the right idea in my experience, so I think that is why the general YC motto is the idea doesn't matter nearly as much as the co-founders do. Best of luck...