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They’re not a “late contributor” if what they bring to the table is nonexistent today.

It is a MVP of 70-80k lines of well written code. If this is true and the app is good, he is ahead of 90% of even the projects accepted by YC which by the last ones I have see the github, it is nothing impressive at all, just React/NextJS.

I assume that YC is looking for people who have validated the market and have established that a market exists before sinking time and effort on the order of years into a product with no customers.

Code is relatively easy against the task of meeting with customers and finding the right fit for your product.

I say this as a coder who much more prefers the scratching of a technical itch to the thought of finding a customer who will pay.

He is not applying to YC, he is looking for a co-founder with a working product. The co-founder needs to come with more than "I can sell".

Read the comment I replied to.

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