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Hacking At Y-Combinator Without Code

Hacking At Y-Combinator Without Code

Y-Combinator hosts a 24-hour hackathon, where top app developers are given plenty of caffein associates in nursing an open mandate to code something new and viable. The winning team is offered an interview for a spot in the upcoming cohort of the famed accelerator mobile app development program, that has kicked-started successes like Airbnb and dropbox. The hackathon format has become common, but for YC it aligns with its primary philosophy: “founders are most productive when they can pay most of their time”. YC has a record of funding hacker-led companies, even when the business model is unproven.

Master plan

Riding with a young, mostly male band of coders, we used the ninety minutes afforded to us by the clogged bay area to commute traffic for game-plan. Our idea was to build a “warm-up” service for flutter development teams running email-promoting campaigns. Spam filters are activated once a corporation sends too many emails out without enough replies. This prevents messages from reaching potential customers. Most teams will “warm-up” a new email address by sending a non-marketing message for a while to build credibility. We wanted to build a tool that would automate this warm and software developers process.

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