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Re:YC Startup School 2018: a free, 10-week, online course by lettergram on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @11:56AM (#17559513)
If you're starting there is a huge advantage to holding yourself and others accountable. It helped push me to launch my startup and provided insights.

Perhaps more importantly you make connections. Just yesterday I was speaking to someone from my startup school group, and I did startup school over a year ago. They provided feedback and I provide them feedback, we also found synergies and can introduce one another to other teams, sales, etc.

I'd argue startup school isn't going to help you "finish" your startup. Only you can do that... You're motivation is the real premise behind the whole thing. However, they can give you the tools and connections to make it easier. It's always a cost benefit analysis - "is this worth doing?" Is something startup school helps answer, and also tips the balance (slightly) towards being a bit easier.

For reference, I'm still working on my project a year out (with some revenue):

https://metacortex.me

Startup school helped me get free AWS credits (which helped significantly), helped make connections, and perhaps more importantly - helped with introspection. I should note, I didn't even launch a prototype until the last few days of startup school... It would have been more helpful had I had something at least half way through.

Re:YC Startup School 2018: a free, 10-week, online course by niceperson on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @12:44PM (#17559918)
This doesn't look good........

>Organize Your Companies Knowledge

Company's

Can I be your grammar Czar?

Re:YC Startup School 2018: a free, 10-week, online course by lettergram on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @01:04PM (#17560109)
Thanks for the heads up, haven't really completed this website (you may see broken links too). Our prior site was https://projectpiglet.com - which was our POC. Related to introspection, we realized we had a better target market and are shifting.

Thanks for the input.

Re:YC Startup School 2018: a free, 10-week, online course by psyklic on Thursday July 19, 2018 @04:09AM (#17564594)
Also a search such as 'asdf' or '-50a' seems to crash it, e.g. https://hnprofile.com/author_profiles?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=...
Re:YC Startup School 2018: a free, 10-week, online course by lettergram on Thursday July 19, 2018 @05:44PM (#17570578)
Thanks for taking the time to respond, that was my bad.

I wasn't ready for releasing it, and was breaking some stuff last night. Thanks for pointing it out :)