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Since we care most about the people, it's hard to say without knowing more about you as an individual. But I get the impression you're rushing to make a deadline. You may want to consider simply waiting till the next cycle, which is only another 6 months more.

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If my Stanford co-founder wouldn't have scaled back his involvement recently, we were just on track to apply for the YC fall batch. Now, when he is not there as technical co-founder, the situation does becomes different. Earlier, our chances would have been good as we brought in a decent balance of complimentary skills to the founding team - we could have managed w/o traction (if I may say so). But as a single non-technical co-founder, showing traction becomes a must-have.

afaik yc doesn't penalize you for applying multiple times, and there's no cost to do it, other than the time involvement.

It maybe true that YC won't penalize me for applying multiple times. Like I mentioned in my other response here, I would be far more confident of applying at this stage if I had a technical co-founder or traction. W/o either of these, my case doesn't appear very strong, at least for now... and that's why I have been going back-and-forth about applying right now or not.

Also, YC fall deadline is about 3 weeks away, and I don't want to make a hasty move wrt finding a technical co-founder.

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