[HN Gopher] YC Build Sprint Winter 2021 - Get feedback on your Y...
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       YC Build Sprint Winter 2021 - Get feedback on your YC application
        
       Author : todsacerdoti
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2021-02-02 17:01 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (blog.ycombinator.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (blog.ycombinator.com)
        
       | joandeg wrote:
       | Hey HN, Joan from the SUS here as well! Happy to answer questions
       | about the Build Sprint alongside Kyle.
        
       | kcorbitt wrote:
       | Hey HN, looks like I was beat to the punch on posting this. :)
       | 
       | I work on Startup School at YC. We're excited to launch our
       | second-ever build sprint. You can think of a build sprint as sort
       | of like a 4-week hackathon, with regularly scheduled checkpoints
       | and a community of other folks all working on their ideas at the
       | same time. If you're looking for an excuse to take the plunge and
       | start work on a startup or side project, this is a great
       | opportunity to do that.
       | 
       | (Note: I'm traveling today so won't be as active in the comments
       | as I'd like, but will pop in to answer any questions as often as
       | I can!)
        
       | maximp wrote:
       | Are you still providing $10K grants to the most promising
       | companies at the end of the sprint, as you did during the last
       | sprint?
        
         | joandeg wrote:
         | We're not giving out grants after this build sprint. We're
         | going to focus on giving more feedback to founders -- on at
         | least 1,000 applications to YC.
        
       | artembugara wrote:
       | > Finally, in a first for YC, we'll provide actionable feedback
       | on 1,0001 YC S2021 applications submitted by sprint participants.
       | 
       | Ok, this is really cool.
        
         | dang wrote:
         | Looks like that number should be 1,000 and the trailing "1"
         | points to a footnote:
         | 
         | " _If possible, we'd like to provide an actionable piece of
         | feedback to everyone who completes the Build Sprint and submits
         | a YC application. But we're not sure how long that will take,
         | so we're only committing to provide feedback on 1,000
         | applications for now to be safe._ "
        
         | PhillyG wrote:
         | Oooh that is cool
        
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