Show HN: Share your YC application pre-submission

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Co-author here. Me and my co-founder got tired of trying to copy and paste the whole application into Google docs (to share with our advisors, friends, investors, etc) so we built a simple hack chrome extension to make it easy to copy and paste the whole thing into Google Docs (could probably do Word, Hackpad, etc too)

If anyone is interested, source code available here: https://github.com/philipdesmedt/ycappreview

Good luck with your application. Reviewing many times to say what you're really trying to say certainly helps.

Thanks for this, saved me some time!

Thanks! Got tired of copying and pasting as well.

P.S. Upon reading the title of your submission, I thought this is some kind of public application sharing service where people could discuss each others' applications.

some instructions on how to build the extension and install it, rather than use the chrome store, would be awesome!

EDIT: wow, it works out of the box. just go to chrome://extensions, "Load unpacked extension..." (enable developer mode i think), and then point to the folder where you've downloaded the github repo, and you're good to go!

Yup :) We only really open sourced it so it was easy to see we weren't being malicious.

Good luck and thanks for sharing! Can this be used for any type of content?

No, this can only be used on the YC app.

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