Thanks for your feedback.

Here's our answer to YC app on the chicken & egg issue:

Our idea does face a chicken-and-egg problem although not in the typical sense.

The 2 groups of users on Chance are Influencers (chickens) & Followers (eggs).

Since Chance is built on top of Twitter - a Follower is able tweet video requests to any Influencer through the Chance app, even if that Influencer has never used Chance before.

Through these Follower requests, the entrance of even just a handful of Influencers (chickens) into Chance has the potential to pull in 100s or even 1000s more Followers into Chance (eggs).

So our strategy initially will be to focus on getting: A) Followers to request a chance with any of their Influencers already on Twitter. B) To get pre-subscribed Influencers to broadcast/tweet their availability on Chance, which would immediately pull their followers in.

Hi aswin8728

So the Influencer would see the video request come in on Twitter where he can view it in line OR click the link and view it on a unique landing page.

There's a call-to-action in both options that prompts the Influencer to download the app in order to reply..

Here's an example of this already happening - https://www.chance.fm/w/679/

Second time applicant - www.chance.fm

Rejected again. But we anticipate better news in the horizon. Lets see..

Its built on an opensource project form github https://github.com/nevir/groc , The application logic is written in django, Celery processes the queue of generating documentation.

Got that dreaded email. Rejected. Now back to work.

Yeah, good luck man

Good advice, staying with it and believing in your idea is certainly important and I guess they'll see through that if you're not genuine.

> believing in your idea is certainly important

Not just your idea - also important to believe in yourself and your team. In many ways this will supercede the idea because the idea is just one manifestation of a solution to a problem that you're solving. With time and experience your understanding of that problem will evolve, as will your solution.