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In my opinion, Startup School is kind of a waste of time.

If you have the capacity and the will to build for yourself, you should already have the drive to push your idea forward. You don't need validation from them to make it work.

I hate getting judged by a "panel of experts" and their "opinions" destroying the wills to continue. Self-confidence and constant iterative validation are a big part of the founder's success. YC's model of "only the top 1% gets funding and support" has stopped producing unicorns. It exerts bias and provides false validation to the founders leading them into a false sense of security.

Resources are great, but I wouldn't waste time on a program like this. Especially they pick only 20.

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I am a founder who has been trying for many years. I have a set of mental issues including insecurity (which is way better now) and I totally depend on peer group of founders to help me along.

Just for reference, last 2-3 weeks were a complete blank. I spoke to a few founders for motivation but I could not drive work.

If you have the capacity to work without any support, good for you. I am not in these networks for YC validation though. I am there for the peers, they help immensely. In fact I want to create an alternate place for founders, but many already exist and I am a part (PH, IH, Makerlog) of them too.

Where is the community in PH? Also everything that is top ranked on PH has a majority of vague or empty positivity. Being positive is good, but not the way PH and Yourstack are.

PH Makers, it is not as matured a community but it is getting there. I am not talking about PH ranking (homepage).

Ah okay. So the wip.chat and makerlog clone? Based on principles. I don’t know. Don’t feel right using the bigger corp copying product.

I wouldn't call it a waste of time but it did feel like it was targeted more towards very early-stage start-ups, and was probably helpful mostly to them.

If you have some kind of traction and experience, the video conferences felt pretty awkward because a lot of the founders were completely inexperienced and would try to be helpful by giving you "advice" they'd read in a blog somewhere or really obvious stuff.

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