Our Experience of the Inaugural Y Combinator Fellowship

Very informative post!Thanks for taking the time out to write this.<p>Will you be able to share the ratio of companies that took part in YCF remotely vs moving to the Bay area?

Nice post. Just wanted to ask about the funding situation after YCF. Are the companies in a position to receive funding or is too early? And does YC help in introducing you to investors?<p>Were there any single founders during the first batch?

I wish there was a job and kids version of the Fellowship. Make it 12-16 weeks, and allow founders to keep their day jobs. I am in Georgia Tech OMSCS right now and people put 30-40 hours a week into that and keep their day job.<p>It would be very encouraging to be able to test out one of my ideas for a semester but the work load these guys talk about in the article is pretty crazy. Is the expectation of the Fellowship that the founders are putting in 12+ hour days for 8 straight weeks?

Pretty cool post, kind of motivated to apply :) Can you provide a bit more info about the exit office hours&#x2F;final event? You write that they made it clear that you kind of have no official ties to YC. Was there any advice given other than &quot;apply to YC&quot;? Did you get any advice on going forward if you don&#x27;t get into YC?<p>The apifier site looks pretty cool. I like the art style, did one of you draw the robot?

This looks interesting, but I kinda wish there&#x27;s something like this for no-moonshot, low-key business models, with lower return but higher chance of profit. As I understand it, YC is still geared towards high-risk, high-return ventures, is that correct?