I have experience as a UX designer and a UI/Front end engineer so I can help out in both areas. I've also worked as UX/Design engineer sitting on the design team helping design and build design systems, animations, UI, etc. Most recently I've worked as web/design engineer on the marketing team for SAAS companies.
Love those guys. As a junior designer, their work are very inspiring. I also love medium. I've found great deal of content on startups and building stuff. Didn't know they worked together on Medium. Great find.
PG - what are the chances of a single founder but with technical background getting in YCombinator? I'm a good but not great/"rockstar" developer but I am good enough to create an MVP. Would love to hear your thoughts on it.
P.S - I can have a demo ready by interview process.
Last time I calculated, the odds were about 1/5 what they'd be with 2 or more founders.
But talking about the odds is misleading, because this pool is a mix of a large number of people for whom the chance is zero and a small number for whom it's quite high. So if you're another Drew Houston (who was a single founder when he applied), the odds are very good.
Was this at a time before YC began favoring founders over ideas? Serious morbid curiosity here and not a troll attempt and I thank you for indulging me.
The next morning, on the train back to Virginia, hung over, somewhere in the middle of Connecticut, I get a call from Paul. He says, "I'm sorry, we made a mistake. We don't like your idea, but we like you guys." We got off the train, and I was able to sweet-talk the Amtrak lady into not charging us to turn around. In our conversation, Paul said, "You guys need to build the front page of the Internet." That was all Paul, and that became Reddit.
No, YC has always favored founders over ideas. But one of the main way you judge someone is what ideas they have.
When drew was first applying to YC I didn't know him. But I'm going to presume that, like most young people, 6 months or a year is a lot of time for personal growth.
Willing to relocate: Yes (to right opportunities)
Role: UX/Design engineer, Web Developer (Marketing), or Product designer
Technologies: - Design => Figma, Sketch, Framer, etc. - UI dev => React, Typescript, NextJS, Tailwind, Material UI, Styled Components, Storybook, etc. - Marketing integrations => Contentful, Algolia, Optimizely, Crowdin, Marketo, LaunchDarkly, Segment/Amplitude, Airtable etc.
Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qu5chw06larmgk8mpbuiz/Resume....
Email: bgauchan {at} icloud.com
Website: bgauchan.com
I have experience as a UX designer and a UI/Front end engineer so I can help out in both areas. I've also worked as UX/Design engineer sitting on the design team helping design and build design systems, animations, UI, etc. Most recently I've worked as web/design engineer on the marketing team for SAAS companies.