hyad's comments

I had been meaning to refinance my student loans with them, but now I have second thoughts. However, they seem to have better customer service than their competitors such as Darien Rowayton Bank. Just wondering about the company's finances.

Awful. I spent two years on that site, met 2 people in person, sent literally 100s upon 100s of messages. Giant waste of time - I'm thoroughly convinced online dating does not work. Have you seen the movie Catfish? Its kind of like that, no one is who they appear to be on the internet. Sorry if I'm ranting. OKCupid is "free", but it took away many, many hours that I'll never get back.

I met a girl one time who said "You get a good relationship when you need it the least." I think that is the crux of why it doesn't work or can't work. It's like when you find something you've lost, but only after you stop searching for it.

To reply to my own comment: I probably should have signed up to attend this - www.startupschool.org The deadline was 3 days ago. D'oh! If anyone who had signed up is reading this and has to cancel, let me know if I can take your spot. :)

Great article! Just reading this finally motivated me enough to create an account here and seriously think about applying for winter 2011. After some reconsideration though, I'm not quite sure I'd be willing to quit my day job just yet. I have a few ideas for startups and one project I've been working on in my spare time that is interesting but nowhere near complete. Would it be worth to apply anyway? Perhaps I could list all the ideas I have or maybe just the best one? I was also thinking about applying to the YCommonApp. But I'd prefer to target my resume to specific companies just because that has worked for me the best in the past. Anyone have advice on what might be a good route to take? YCombinator funding? YCommonApp? Both or neither?