Earlier today I asked fellow hackers about their take on my app. But, just in the matter of hours my situation changed dramatically.<p>We were a team of two founders, me being the developer and the other cofounder, a marketing/sales girl. Ours/mine is a crowdsourced based non-profit startup in its early stages of development.<p>Due some reasons, she quit on the startup and I am now the only founder left in the company, I'm really determined to go ahead and apply for YC.
I have been working relentlessly to get to a shape.<p>I was wondering if this happened to anyone before and if yes- how did you manage to compensate the loss(may be for a good reason).<p>PS: For the curious, here is my original ask hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9267658
I have absolutely no experience with YC applications and know almost nothing about the teams that got in.<p>Given that -- my take:<p>You are worried about all the wrong things.<p>Instead, you should worry about whether you are making something people want and effectively communicating that you are doing that. All this other stuff is sapping your energy to accomplishing the one thing YC says over and over again that means the most to them. The second thing is relentlessness -- if you are relentless, these are very minor setbacks, and not worth your attention right now.
If I were you. I'd go and apply and start searching immediately for another team mate.<p>Ask yourself. What's the worse that can happen?<p>I have no xp with y combinator or all of its criteria but a lot of people view one founder as a weakness (this can also bleed over with angel investors too from what I hear). Fortunately you have the tech side. If you want another founder then start searching. If you want a business side person it shouldn't be too hard.<p>I personally have started as a single cofounder and raised money by the users. Its not nearly as fun but it's doable. If you believe in it i wouldn't let anyone stop me.<p>My 2 cents.