Agreed again,I do not need the YC funding. Although the advice,resource and the environment that it provides can be incredibly valuable. Having said that everyday there are great companies built outside of YC so yes will still give this a shot anyway
Yes but I just had this idea few days ago and with a full time job have just got some wireframes and data models done. I did not want to miss on Apply HN thread and the valuable feedback here. For example from one of the comments here I already changed one of my data models.
Also I am one man team right now :) so I realized from the feedback here that I would need a UI or hopefully a front-end UI founder on this.
I hope to move from Apply HN to Show HN. Thanks again
Email is in my profile.
Another obvious issue with today's recruiting is that every giant wants to maintain a talent pool, so they throw all kinds of events, and recruiters are helping with this. however, if they are able to socialize their candidate database attached with ATS, and keep them updated, I believe they are more than happy to. I think both your idea and mine is a good angle to solve this problem.
Anyway, let me know if you're interested in working together.
* Social networks are tough, tough, tough. There are so many subtle UX issues (why did Facebook work but Friendster fail? Why did MySpace work for a while but ultimately fail?) and there's the ultimate chicken-and-egg problem. Do you really, truly understand why your idea will win?
* Do you think that you really need the YC Fellowship? Will that actually help you? What will you use the $ for?
As @patio11 tweeted the other night:
https://twitter.com/patio11/status/717474850927808512
"It has never in the history of mankind been cheaper to make software. You don't need funding you need a day job at McDonalds."
* I think your best bet - if you really believe in this idea - is to build a prototype on your own, show the world why you've built a better LinkedIn, and show us / investors / YC why your professional social network is better than LinkedIn, and back it up with hard growth numbers.
If this 'Apply HN' instead said something like:
"So we have an idea - it's LinkedIn without the spam. We built a prototype, and we've gotten 50,000 people in the < whatever > business community to use it. They love it. We're growing within this niche at 20% per week. But it's only two of us, and we need to grow. So here we are -- we'd love the YC Fellowship so we can put some real effort into X, then Y, and finally Z."
Do that, and you've got a winner.
My $0.02. Discount as you will, and best of luck to your team!