How to make your YC application stand out

&gt; <i>The week after Christmas, we drove our entire lives up to our new apartment in NYC, got my wife settled in the city, and then I flew out to San Francisco to live on the other side of the country from her for 3 months.<p>&gt; And it was, without a doubt, one of the best experiences of my life.</i><p>Out of context this wording is kind of funny&#x2F;sad.

The one trait I&#x27;ve noticed about these articles is the applicant must have a significant amount of planning.<p>It doesn&#x27;t sound like YC is something that you wake up on Monday and say, &quot;I&#x27;m going to live in California for 3 months on savings without a reliable source of income and hope I can turn my idea into a business.&quot;