Y Combinator Startup School week 1 progress

Namaste! Morning! Once again, morning exercise has proven to be very effective in making my morning amazing, and did some puppy yoga. Where are you? Here's my partner. Seven, did you help me with yoga this morning? Thank you. Today is a big day on tour. Writing, reading, planning, and planning out some new projects. Alright! Writing done, reading done. Tick tick. Now, I've got, I'm kind of a little bit crazy, I've got it up there so it's visual and on here. I like to kind of write things twice. So we'll mark that off there. Boom. Isn't there a song? Santa's got a list and he's checking it twice. That's like me, I'm checking, checking my list, both my lists twice. It's lunchtime. So I suppose I pose, I suppose. It's so, how does it get so bright in my room? Where's a good place of light? Maybe right here. That's good. Okay, so what am I actually working on? I've been spending this time planning. I've been spending the past few days just doing time lapses of me working on something. Well, I'm planning essentially, planning the next few projects that I'm gonna make on this channel and slash just in general. So, that is essentially what I'm doing. I'm relearning from the beginning. In order to become like you, you had to become like me. In order for me to become like you, I have to become like you. Anyway, there was some quote there. It was supposed to work out, but it didn't. I've got to update my YC Startup School with the progress on my startup. I'll show you what that looks like. And then I've got a meeting with some other founders in my local area, which is exciting. All right, so this is the YC Startup School interface. And so it goes for 10 weeks. So ideally, by the end of this, there'll be 10 updates. I've done 2 already. Now if we look at what, what an update is, so basically you do one update per week, right? You watch the lecture, It'll be on some topic around startups or building a company, and then you work on your startup. And then by the next week, you incorporate the knowledge you learned from the lecture into your startup and then post an update on your progress. So here we go. This is July 25th. Primary metric, are you launched? So that means, do you have something in the wild? Can a customer potentially use your product? At this stage, we're not. Weeks to launch, 10. 10. And they give you these cool little, little pieces of information here, these tidbits. So look, if I change this to 1, almost there, looking forward to your launch. So why do I have it at 10? Well, what we're lacking at the moment is some engineering knowledge behind, or as well as really identifying what our problem actually is in terms of what we're trying to solve with, with Nutrify. That's our, that's our startup name. So YC have a real bias towards getting something out there as soon as possible. So that is potential feedback for us on getting something out there as soon as possible, just to stop, stop, stop overthinking it and just build something that people want. And how many users, prospective— how many users slash prospective users have you talked to this week? 10. I've been posting on different social media forums of what people's biggest problems are with nutrition and health, just to try and figure out. I mean, 10 is just a— I've kind of just thrown that number in there. I haven't really counted exactly how many. Point is, more the better. That way you're sort of, you're gaining information. You're not necessarily just building something in your own head. You're building something that is actually solving a problem that people have. And what are your top 1 to 3 goals for the next week? Get a rough design ready. I mean, this could really be get an actual working prototype. I need to be more, more aggressive with this. I think this is, this is good feedback to myself. Talk to more potential users. Of course, this is always good. So yeah, here we go. If you're watching this, what is your biggest problem with food and nutrition, right? Do you know what's good, what's not good? Do you know how often to eat? Do you, do you know how much to eat? What's your biggest roadblock when it comes to improving your nutrition knowledge? Leave a comment below. It really helps us out. What have you learned from users? So the ones that I talked to, their issues aren't the same as what we thought they were. Long story short, what is your— what most changed your primary metric? So time, just basically the time we can dedicate towards this project. At the moment I'm trying to set up my business to run cash flow to drive this project and then engineering skills to execute. Obviously you need to be able to build, build. We need to be able to build an application. Biggest obstacle, same again, lack of clear problem is kind of the extension here. That's really important. Figure out what your problem is that you're trying to solve and the building will probably take care of itself. Not really, but sort of. Morale: 10. We couldn't be more excited and optimistic. Now see, I'm always optimistic and excited. So this metric will likely not really fall much below 10, but we will see. And so then you submit that and then shortly, uh, later tonight at 8:00 PM, there'll be a meeting. I think it's here, group sessions, um, with some other startups to get feedback on each other. So let's see how that goes. Week 1 Startup School, exciting times. Call time. Am I, am I in here? Oh, sweet. How are you? What's happening? Let me change up this camera. Sweet, I think that's actually like a pretty good note, like unless anyone else wants to— I think we've, rather than just keep, keep going on, I think, uh, it sounds like everyone kind of knows what their, what their next steps are, which is, which is pretty good. Have a good night everyone. What that was is other teams around Brisbane were, we were just talking about what our obstacles were last week what our goals are for the next week and how we're tracking. So it's really awesome to hear from, from other startups. Like there was Fuel Switch, which is Jackson trying to inc— no, decarbonize jet fuel. Bernardo and Harrison are building an education platform for schools for economics. Postcards by Matt is an online messaging platform for small web applications. It's actually really inspiring to hear hear what other people are building on. Bernardo had some amazing advice. Don't be discouraged, keep going. I've got to leave some feedback for the other teams on how they're doing. They're all doing great. I'm probably doing the worst because I have nothing built. We're going to change that very shortly. So yeah, I'll see you tomorrow. Good afternoon. Yeah, it's afternoon already. That's crazy. It's gloomy as outside. All right, we're done. Let me— ah, look at this, what an absolute disaster. This is getting an overhaul next week. We're going to just start fresh. We've done some writing, done some reading. Now we're going to get to Nutrify. Remember how I said the, the quickest way to the target is to go straight to the target? Well, that's what I'm going to try and do over the next couple hours. Right? So I kind of know the style slash outline of product I want to build. So I'm just going to try and get a prototype ready as soon as possible so I can start testing it. What does that mean? Well, no longer just continually reading the Swift book. Well, I will finish it eventually, but I want to get hands-on and start building as soon as possible. So that's what I'm going to do over the next couple hours. Alright, Firebase is still out, so I can't make a new project, but I've lined up some tutorials to go through, um, and basically just get a prototype out there so I can start testing if if I can accomplish what I actually want to accomplish. I think that's, that's the best way to do it. Just go straight to the target. Otherwise, I think that's enough for this video. It's been a great week. I'll see you next week. As always, keep learning, keep creating. I tried to catch you, but you were on your way.