Back to back YC hackathons. One weekend in SF. Walked away with Garry Tan's number.
Grinded out 2 back to back YC hackathons this weekend.
Saturday: WatchDog. Basically, Palantir aimed at SF. AI watches public street cameras, builds a knowledge graph of the city's crime, and predicts and flags incidents before they happen.
Sunday: Handle. An agent that runs an entire property maintenance pipeline end to end.
didn't place. But we demoed WatchDog to Garry after, and he said it was impressive, gave us his number.
The part that stuck wasn't the build. It was what Garry and the YC partners told us. VCs are mostly guessing, too. Nobody actually knows what the next big thing is. So building toward whatever looks fundable is backwards. Find the one thing you can't stop thinking about, take it to the edge of what's technically possible, and go all in like nothing else exists.
back on the 30th. can't go 0-4 for YC hackathons.