Thanks. Yeah, we'll try again each time until we're accepted, or until we take the plunge anyway. If you don't mind if I ask, what business are you building? It's always fun to learn what everyone else is working on.

When we realized that making something for public schools was a really bad position for a tiny startup to be in (if you've ever wondered why the technology tools that teachers use are so bad, it's because a public school's buying process is broken), we wondered what to do about it. All Emily and I knew is that we have a huge, overpowering desire to start a company. So I looked at my strengths to find something that I could be really passionate about. I've made random little video games for a long time, and I've held a job in the gamedev industry for the last two years, so I realized, "Hey, you don't have to work on a webapp. Just do what you really love."

Emily and I talked for awhile, and we realized that a lot of people want to create their own game, but don't want to deal with the complicated details. I don't blame them. Game art is complicated to create. And not only are most games created in C++, which is a horrible language for a beginner to use, but the complexities of the graphics libraries make it almost impossible to just create a cool little thing to show off to your friends quickly. Plus, cross-platform is really messy to accomplish.

So we're building something to make 2D game creation suck less. Making multiplayer Mario has always been a little dream of mine. And imagine a day when you can just read through some simple instructions and make something right away, then have your creation show up where your friends can play it. Or you're playing through someone else's game and spot a cool-looking character, so you press a button and you can use that character in your games, too.

But, one step at a time.

It's not concerning that it's a huge project. And Emily doesn't mind that she has no idea how to contribute. We're just working on it part of each day and saving up our money, and trusting that one day, with a lot of hard work, things will fall into place. And heck, our idea is for video games, something that YC has already said everyone and their brother tries to apply with. But we applied, even if our chances are nil, and had a lot of fun hammering out our application and doing our traditional loud ten-second countdown before submitting.

So however crazy your idea seems, let's apply anyway! If we all do, then at least one of us will get in, which is really cool.

What's everyone working on?