But this one feels different... and no it's not 'tinder for job search', I was just trying to use something to compare my idea market/space, etc without giving away anything (I'm paranoid that way).

I have bootstrapped a few apps... most notably a signup system to manage pick-up hockey games... I knew writing it it was a niche 'product' and didn't expect to make any money off of it and mostly just wanted it to cure a bunch of personal pain points of running pick-up/drop-in hockey games. Truthfully I thought I could get rinks to adopt it but after meeting with 3 rinks all owned by local muni's that idea fizzled out quickly. I did get one privately owned rink to use it (and they still do and love it), so it's fine, I make a little off it every few months (like 50-100 bucks) and it made/makes running my skates a breeze so all good.

Which is why I am trying to avoid that same fate... aka if I bootstrap this idea, there is no way I'm going to be able to get the level of users to compete with a Linked-In or a Tinder. To me that requires something like Ycombinator getting onboard and throwing their weight and resources behind it.

So I guess I'm saying I am pretty realistic about this idea... it's not a rink management or drop-in/pick-up management type thing that is very limited in the scope/scale. That idea never had the potential of truly blowing up.

This idea is more like a linked-in, tinder, facebook, instagram, giant, massive, holy fuck type of idea... and yeah ideas are a dime a dozen, but to me that's only true when that idea is coming from a friend, an uncle, a buddies wife... aka someone that doesn't really know how to qualify an idea like this.

I think I have my decision though, I feel that apply for Ycombinator is the right way to go; I'm convinced it's that level idea, that warrants that level support to get it to world domination levels.

Thanks for the reply.