eytanlevit's comments

Hey Guys,

Congrats for launching.

Feedback: I personally don't find the "via x" text something that affects the brand of the company, I guess big companies might, but if that is the case - what is the point of launching a SaaS product?

Nice design.

I think that any feedback is a form of caring, so I really appreciate you even writing a response.

And don't get me wrong, I'm not arguing, even though I might try to be contrary, I'm still listening to everything written here in the comments, and it will be a factor in future decisions.

Anyway, I agree it's not a classy move, much more classy would be to apply with an amazing demo, paying customers and a co-founder, but this is what I think will happen when I'll apply in the next batch.

The only decision I had to make was to myself: do I want to start y combinator without traction and co-founder - and I decided that I do.

Once I've reached that decision - I allocated a week for the whole effort and did whatever came to mind to get applied.

If I don't get accepted, I hope next round I'll come stronger - tractionwise.

Cheers

I actually told about this to a few YC alumni and VCs before doing it, and got positive responses.

thanks!

Appreciate your feedback, take into account that my budget is $100 and it took me 1 day to set this up.

I actually limited the whole YC application process to 1 week, before it and now I'm talking with multiple potential customers, building an MVP and even got 2 investment offers.

Truthfully, I'm not sure if it's stalking or not, and I'm not sure if it was a good move or not, but the risk/reward here was good enough.

For me being an entrepreneur is executing a lot of different ideas I get to reach my goals, knowing that most will fail, not letting it decrease my speed.

Btw, the whole thing was worth it even if I don't get to YC, as it got some people to reach out to me and helped me solve a problem I was currently working on - how to get american parents to be interviewed by me(problem interview).

Again, I appreciate your feedback and if this move fails, it might be because your thoughts are exactly what YC partners think about this - in that case it will be another lesson learned.

Appreciate the feedback, but the contrary is true. I'm currently building a business and I find YC a great place to kickstart it from.

This is my 3rd company, in my previous two actually dismissed the value of a strong network, mentorship and sitting in Silicon Valley.

Applying to YC in the earliest stages of this company is actually me not making the same mistake I did with my previous startup(raised $350K, busted asses for almost 2 years but failed).

Just updated the post to make my point clear.

Thanks for the feedback.

Great points, totally agree.

Regarding the meditation, it's really interesting - could you tell a bit more about how it has helped you, do you do it every day, how long, what exact meditation technique and where did you learn it?

I heard it first when I was 16, listening to Red Hot Chilli Peppers song called Deep Kick

Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjj6ZnTAeUA Lyrics: http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Deep-Kick-lyrics-Red-...

I remember... 10 years ago in Hollywood We did some good and we did some real bad stuff but the Butthole Surfers said It's better to regret something you did Than something you didn't do

Brilliant

I agree that some users might close the page or hit the "back" button before the $(document).ready() happens, but I can't believe that 70% of the people did that(taking into account that our ad was really targeted and highly relevant to the landing page).

It was a few months ago and we've already deleted the db table, we are soon relaunching with a new campaign, so once I get the data again I'll post it here.

Happend to us too!! we first thought kissmetrics was wrong, so we built a logger that logged server side requests and a client side code that executes on load of the landing page, and we found that 70% of the server side hits had javascript disabled(or that hit the page and left it before the js executed, which seems improbable for such a large number - 70%).

Welcome to capitalism

Hey dude,

I strongly identify with your feelings - I know that place very well.

Here is the way I hacked it out: 1. Regarding relationships with girls\friend - After years of having too many friends, I understood that almost everyone I met wanted to be friends of mine, this lead to an overload of friends, and made me be not a good friend of a lot of freinds. Once I realized that, I decided to stop socializing with everyone I met, and focus on my closest friends.

Another hack regarding friends - I found that having a certain structure, like meeting every thursday to play poker and playstation - was really good for me.(Of course that I socialize beyond this routine, but this baseline routine with friends really made our friendship strong and fulfilling).

2. Focusing on one thing: I found that working with partners really helps me focus, it is true regarding learning, programming and founding startups.

If you wish to create a new startup - find a partner and make it with him\her - level out with him that you have a focusing problem - and that he should call you out if he sees that you are unfocused or unproductive.

this is very powerful, this discovery has changed my life, it allowed me to open my startups, and today I am the owner of a very successful israeli bootstrapped start up(founded with 2 partners ofcourse).

3. hacking suicide thoughts\meaningless feeling - most important hack of all - imagine being a mountaineer, climbing on the everest, your feet hurt, it is difficult to breath, it is cold, but you still do it because it is your fucking dream.

Now image climbing the everest without a special reason, without having the dream of climbing it - the pain would be the same, but you would hate it so much, it would take so much energy from you, you would be miserable and stop pretty early on.

My point is, my friend - that if you feel that pain overwhelms you - you are currently climbing the wrong mountain(You don't have a burning desire).

You should stop climbing(trying to focus, trying to better yourself, trying to do things) - and decide what is the thing you really want to do. You might not know, you might have some options and you won't be sure which is the "right" dream from you, I can tell you this, life is precious - you should be brave(taking the risk of maybe it is the "wrong" dream) and choose your dream - and fucking go for it full power. Even if in the end you will understand that you didn't "really" want to do that dream, the only true way of finding out is doing it fullpower.

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If all fails - I highly recommend finding a life coach, I have found that they are extremely useful, not trying to figure out whats wrong with you, but just giving you power to do the things you really want to do(and finding out what these things are).