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How to Apply and Succeed at Y Combinator by Dalton Caldwell

Startup School by Y Combinator

CHAPTER

Application Obfuscates Everything

A weak applications obfuscate everything. What? Who's on the team? Who's writing the code? Obfuscated. How does it work? I have no idea. And you will notice that other people will check out. Simply going for coherent understanding should always be the first thingo do before you're trying to sell someone, right? So if i don't understand what the heck is going on in your application, it doesn't even get to the point where it's like, hay, should we fun this? Company or not, we just don't know what's going on.

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