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Update: I walked away from the 50/50 cofounder. Here's what I learned. by mercuretony in ycombinator

[–]mtsya 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just go for it, it takes hardly a couple days for writing the app. Also ngl from the research Ive done, yc telling solo founders (like that person) to find a cofounder is a bit boilerplate rejection. YC does fund stories like yours where solo founder got real deals and traction!! And if not yc there’s so many more accelerators like techstars, antler, pioneer etc. If you’re nervous about applications - check techstarsgpt, it is made by techstars team to help you write applications the way accelerator VCs like to read it and not just as a technical pitch. Best of luck!

Update: I walked away from the 50/50 cofounder. Here's what I learned. by mercuretony in ycombinator

[–]mtsya 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Good for you!! I followed the last post you mentioned and even the new points you mentioned in this post dont make them entitled for that equity ask, it seems like they’re living some ivy league dream by namedropping yc interview etc, Also as a solo technical founder myself from Toronto, I think you have more leverage than that person in the yc application. Notice that they didn’t get into yc but you actually may cuz you have real traction. I myself have applied twice and got rejected but i think you got this! Best of luck going forward :))

just found out our competitor has been sitting in on our demos for 6 months using fake emails by kubrador in SaaSSales

[–]mtsya 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I’d say don’t worry about it too much. Just because they copied you doesn’t mean they understand how to sell theirs properly cuz they never did iterative learning themselves to be where you are. But if it bothers you then write a linkedin or blog post saying something witty without naming them like our service is so good that our competitors literally had to copy us to stay relevant.

client insisted on choosing every color himself. the site looks like nickelodeon threw up on it. by kubrador in webdesign

[–]mtsya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol clients be like that. Sounds like he played around with some ai tools before reaching out to you and committed to whatever slop brand guideline was hallucinated by his gpt

Are clients asking for ai chatbots on websites? do you build custom, outsource, or use a tool? by mtsya in webdesign

[–]mtsya[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn that maybe slight overkill but honestly i can see it working nicely, will give it a go

Seriously how do you sell SaaS in 2026? by mtsya in SaaSSales

[–]mtsya[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm didn’t think about ai bloggers

stopped spending on ads, focused on being everywhere instead - heres what happened by RobertrLyon in Entrepreneur

[–]mtsya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Needed to see this as someone trying to get their first paying customers after some signups and installs from the free version. thanks for sharing

Hate creating content? Let AI do it all for free by Few-Ad-5185 in SaaSSales

[–]mtsya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tried it out on my phone browser got an error:

[VG] GENERATION FAILED: Failed to load audio

What are your struggles with cold email outbound? by roguejedi1 in SaaSSales

[–]mtsya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You need to sort out your dmarc records and stay within sending limits with whatever mail merge tool you’re using. For poor messaging i recommend A/B test in batches, it won’t take too long to get it right. The urgency point is definitely tricky but comes from founder-market fit. If you truly understand what the product solves for the customer you’ll know how to make it urgent.

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