Tell HN: Here's how my team got to the YC interview stage

That's a great story. You guys are obviously smart and have a good idea. Your weak points would be here:<p>- Have you fought with your co-founders yet to find out if you could survive such a fight? If all you've been in civil and polite, then you don't really know each other yet<p>- You have 'options'. Will you have the drive to really push through if things do not go initially as expected?<p>The impression I am concerned about is that you seem a bit soft and nice, if I may use those word. If I were you, I'd focus on making sure in conveying that you have the capacity to be tough also.

Thought I'd share the story, especially for those who are outsiders to the startup world, like myself. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or, better yet, interview advice.

Their idea reminded of a similar concept I heard once: open source scientific papers.<p>It works like this: you put up the .tex source, the data files, the R, Octave, etc. scripts, and if people download and run the scripts, they get the exact paper as a result, including all the graphs. This way one can check that the graphs really show what is claimed in the paper and that there has been no bug or "polishing" of the results.

Congratulations Trevor. Generous reflection you've shared. Much appreciated.

Interesting idea. I wonder though, how big is the potential market, money-wise?