Ask HN: Share your idea that you feel would never be picked by YC?
As it has happened many times already, I started my application process to YC and didn't submit because, while I would love to get the validation and the network from YC, I simply can't convince myself that I am the type of person to be running any type of multi-billion dollar company.
I have many ambitions, and I'm the type of person who doesn't mind spending hours with one customer to figure out their problems and I would love to take my existing projects and turn them into healthy, sustainable businesses. But just the thought that I'll have to sacrifice a lot of my core values to achieve anything at the scale required by big VCs make me sick to my stomach.
So, if you are not applying (today is the last day!) because you think that your idea is worthy "only" a few million bucks, what would that idea be, and what would have to change for you to think that the application would be worth it?
I have many ambitions, and I'm the type of person who doesn't mind spending hours with one customer to figure out their problems and I would love to take my existing projects and turn them into healthy, sustainable businesses. But just the thought that I'll have to sacrifice a lot of my core values to achieve anything at the scale required by big VCs make me sick to my stomach.
So, if you are not applying (today is the last day!) because you think that your idea is worthy "only" a few million bucks, what would that idea be, and what would have to change for you to think that the application would be worth it?