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We actually keep track of everything behind each question you answer. Topics, time, etc. Every game actually adapts to both players' weaknesses. We can actually sway games through this.

So the app is social because of it's matchmaking mode. You're right about the jealousy part and we decided that it's more beneficial to be playing against a national pool. Amongst high schoolers, we found that students consistently play more because they want to win (or alleviate the pain of losing).

Single player was an idea of ours, but there are a bunch of apps out there like that already. Once our new version comes out (that contains our weekly leaderboard challenges), we might revisit that idea. Some of those challenges include beating your last week's accuracy, etc. ;)

I don't think they remove it. I do believe that they send an automated email if they detect private keys from being committed to a public repo though. Amazon does something similar to this and they even revoke the key if they see that its public.

I think there are tradeoffs here, right?

For example: YC knows the Bay Area well, their roots are strong where they are situated. If you're not in their area of expertise, you're potentially missing out on a lot of their resources right?

On the other hand: There's probably a lot of opportunities YC is missing out on because they understand that there are people out there that cannot make that long-term commitment.

In the end, this is why I understand that they're running this as an experiment. And I hope that their hypothesis proves to be that remote YC companies work so that they can apply this to their flagship program.

This is absolutely not true