morajabi

`yc-partner` skill captures snapshots of hundreds of YC published resources, partner posts, essays, tweets, guides, examples, etc so it can review YC applications, give prep interview questions, answer questions about YC and do mini office hours.

You're correct. TBH I didn't want to spend time on the website more than a waitlist, instead focused on building the app. I intended the Github readme to show more about the project and I post updates with screenshots on Twitter/X. I'm putting up a docs page today to incrementally add more information about the roadmap, vision, Bot SDK, API docs, etc. Anything in particular you're curious about?

I'm building an open-source, high-quality chat app called Inline. It aims to solve issues with Slack and Discord for work communication. Happy to answer any questions.

https://github.com/inline-chat/inline https://inline.chat

This has been the administration's response to such events for multiple times over the last 6 years (3 times to be exact, plus during the time of war with Israel) and the claim has always been Iran wants to shutdown internet forever. But in all those cases the access was re-enabled after a few or several weeks.

Right now the internet access is widening and some areas are already back to normal internet — but it hasn't been stable over the past week. https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/ir

Untrue — there is a large market for Apple devices, iPhones are super popular in Iran. Fun fact, IRL stores use iMacs because it looks good but they install Windows on them to be able to use their legacy Windows accounting software :)

Thank you for your answer

Right, apologize about misunderstanding.

My question is in fact is there a chance to request waivers about founders seeking O1 visa that are affected by the recent travel ban on certain countries (with Iranian passport)?

Has YC rejected applicant because of possible visa issues due to country of origin because of travel bans? Should those still apply for YC?

We've been developing a native work chat app that fixes the shortcomings of existing chat apps for work, called Inline (inline.chat).

It's still pre-alpha but we decided to open-source our client apps as we don't like to build in silence.

Also, we wanted to build more trust with the community maybe it helps to show we don't want to be yet another chat app that builds hype, gets acquired and shuts down.

I realize it's extremely hard to make a native chat app for multiple platforms, but we constantly hit web app limits building our previous web-based chat app. We'll be making native apps for Android (Kotlin), Web and Windows (Swift) after the macOS/iOS apps hit a baseline of features.

really happy to see There come to life again after 6 years since my original version which was also open-source: https://github.com/therehq/there-desktop

It was built in Electron which meant it was around 200mb and used a few hundred megabytes of RAM idle (!!)

Making a fast, easy to use native work chat app @ noor.to

It's a way to share messages, files, code snippets, links, without worrying about distracting others, or quitting the app yourself to avoid notifications. It uses around 10x less RAM than Slack/Discord/Teams and prioritizes fast moving teams over enterprises. High quality software over features. Features that work rather than half-backed list of smart/AI/notes/wiki/etc bloat.

what do you think causes the fatigue?

This look awesome. Well done Lucas and inácio!

True. We mention this on the website too. But many people switched to bluetooth headsets because of AirPods thinking they are flawless — to my surprise even tech-savvy people, founders and engineers in meetings. The goal was to have a URL to send to them so they can test for themselves as some didn't believe or know what's the issue.

I <3 AirPods and have used them for the past 3 years. But the sound and voice quality are crap when you use them as both your input and output device in calls. AKA, when the microphone is in use.

I'm cofounder of Noor —a voice chat app— and had to tell this to EVERY single new user, and they all were amazed. So we made a website you can link to whenever you hear someone using AirPods on a Zoom call.

Hah!

I agree that it's perhaps even better. With Fly, I feel safe that whatever I want to do now or in the future, I can build on top of the building blocks for it—no matter if there's an "integration". For example, when Vercel added GitHub integration, you couldn't trigger it based on specific logic (tags, branch pattern match) and a bunch of limitation that they use them for up-selling (using GitHub Enterprise/Org requires a Pro account).

Ok, when you launch something and work days and nights on it, when someone who has never downloaded your app comments "we use X and this is unnecessary" I'd love to see your reaction.

Of course, we have focus preferences. But management can also make replying to any Slack DM mandatory as well. This is bad management, not Slack's fault, right?

After all, I'd like to be in one conversation, rather than be chatting to 5 different people simultaneously over a long time and get constant notifications.

With Noor, you jump in, get it done and get out (if it's for a task). But with Slack, you have to keep a chat thread open in your head for a long time, and get constant notifications, or get dragged into multiple chats at once. So which is worse?

Noor is also much better than the office, since in the office you have to respond to a shoulder tap, but in Noor it's just one click to go to focus mode, or go to a room, so people know you're talking, or just ignore nudges. You can't say those interactions in the office were all bad, because it's clear there is something special about collaborating in an office. Remove office distractions, but keep the collaboration. Sounds like Noor.

Sad. Please fill out our request for platform form so you get notified: https://tally.so/r/mZ8Kyw

It's totally different. MS Teams is like Slack and Zoom. Our early users have used both, but still use Noor every day for hours. Same for us. This is an entirely new thing.

I highly recommend you checking it out for yourself with one coworker you work with closely.

Discord's UX is not even comparable to Noor :) You use what works best for you though.

Noor is a desktop app for drop-in audio and video chat for teams. You can download it for macOS to try it right now with your coworkers.

-> How it started

I've worked remotely for global teams, but in our own team, we sometimes worked in our office, and most of the time from home. This resulted in realizing *how much we lose when we switch from the office*.

-> Why we need such app?

Let's imagine what you have when you work in-person: 1. You have the office environments (chats, breaks, jokes, games, coworking, helping each other quickly, coming together for lunch, etc)

2. Slack

3. Meeting room

Now when you go remote, you only have:

1. ????

2. Slack

3. Zoom

What happened to the first part? Bingo, you lost it! And you don't even know it can be solved. We solved it. You can use it for anything, such as

1. Talking to the team, instead of just texting

2. Collaborating in any app with one click voice, video and screen share

3. Being present for your junior devs

4. Getting feedback on your work quickly (with the ability to spontaneously enable camera and see their real reactions!)

5. Unplanned meetings, natural gatherings, 1:1s, etc

6. Helping teammates instantly with their code

7. Getting together impromptu in a room to talk, play or hang out

9. Handling emergency situations elegantly when every one needs to be available

10. Non-work chats and checking on teammates

It's a whole new world.

-> How is it different from Zoom, or apps like Tandem, Around, etc?

When we started, these recent apps weren't even released. I've written in detail in https://usenoor.com/faq on how our approach is radically different (and better, because we re-thought how chats should work from the ground-up)

Oh, BTW we just launched on PH too https://www.producthunt.com/posts/noor-2

Happy to answer any questions. From remote work Qs or about our tech stack :D

For sure.

I love it, great job! Question for you: How was the idea born Alyssa?

Even though 3 of my friends won and got accepted, it still didn't make sense to me. After a few weeks, my friend James recommended me to join. I was a skeptic. But was I right?

I joined. After the first week, we could feel the energy every day. We had to meet our weekly goal—which we ourselves set, not anyone else. We were naturally building faster, marketing and talking to users every week. Got our first paid client $$$ in the third week IIRC. I found voting to be fair, but you need to be able to clearly explain what you're doing and optionally add links or screenshots, etc.

It's a very helpful format for planning that we're still doing with my co-founder. Also, every week you need to pitch your project in a one-liner again. It's so good to hammer your pitch based on feedback. After all, as Micheal Seibel, CEO of YC says, your parents need to understand it in a 1-2 sentence.

We won! Every Monday at 10 am my cofounder and I was staring at the leaderboard, hitting CMD+R every second. We were close to the top. But... Boom! Leaderboard changes show that we're... #120? Another refresh. Couldn't believe. We're #1!!! Probably their system was still applying the scores. Damn, we were running around the room. With more progress stayed #1 for multiple weeks until we decided to take a break. We won in August 2019.

From the email we got: > Congratulations to our newest Pioneers: Mohamad & Behnam Rajabifard, who are building There, a virtual office for remote teams.

After winning, we have frequent AMA live sessions with founders, product managers, CEOs of top tech companies. Every month we have 1-2 office hours with Daniel were we can get help on what we're doing. There's our Slack community exclusively for winners and has channels for everything.

In 6 hours we're having another live event where we're sharing our meal remotely and catching up with friends in Pioneer.

(Just in case you're looking to join and have any questions feel free to DM me on twitter.com/morajabi, I'd be happy to answer any of your concerns)

How long took you to collect the data and analyze and filter them?

So far people who checked the gender ratio of their followings (using one of the existing solutions), were most likely surprised (that it's so biased).

Assuming that, I'll tell them to open their following list, unfollow some of the group they're already following a lot, and follow more from Twiverse and its categories, or if the category isn't there, follow intentionally themselves.

it'll balance it up. That's the route I went and now I have a relatively good mix. I can iterate again, and do that again, but this time using Twiverse.

Probably also how about the initial users specifically

This is awesome I've been telling Twitter to be aware of who they follow, now it's a practical solution I can throw at them.