cold dms and emails are what landed me (senior in hs) YC internship, and honestly just being within the community and showing passion about the product helps drastically
Not OP but I just watched the episode he's referring to - Season 3, Episode 9, titled "Daily Active Users" where the company reaches a huge number of installs before realizing that the metric that matters is not number of downloads but number of daily active users (actual users as opposed to people checking out the product once) - so he means to say that the number of downloads is less important, scaling matters at sustained use and returning customers I guess?
Have you tried Work at a Startup?
https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs
You can apply for internship roles there (by configuring it in your profile).
thanks I'll check it out!
cold dms and emails are what landed me (senior in hs) YC internship, and honestly just being within the community and showing passion about the product helps drastically
dang congrats. how long did it take?
>Any advice?
Yeah, don't put YC on a pedestal. Whatever ship the supposed prestige was on sailed a long time ago, then sank.
One would hope that would create a habitable reef, but in practice it's probably closer to an underwater super fund site.
>...and I've also built and scaled consumer mobile apps solo to 20k+ downloads
I highly recommend watching HBO's Silicon Valley.
> >...and I've also built and scaled consumer mobile apps solo to 20k+ downloads
>>I highly recommend watching HBO's Silicon Valley.
Before watching it, can you explain what you meant in reference to his comment? Thanks.
Not OP but I just watched the episode he's referring to - Season 3, Episode 9, titled "Daily Active Users" where the company reaches a huge number of installs before realizing that the metric that matters is not number of downloads but number of daily active users (actual users as opposed to people checking out the product once) - so he means to say that the number of downloads is less important, scaling matters at sustained use and returning customers I guess?
This makes sense. Thank you.
good luck