I'm also a single founder, and I'm investing part of my own money that I've been saving from all these years as a developer.
Being a single founder is hard, you have to deal with everything from incorporating, accounting, writing code, design, worry about SEO, how to introduce your project to the world get some momentum, etc..
Plus, add that to the fact that I'm from Europe, VC is very complicated here.
But because it's hard we should be more appreciated and not put aside.
I'm working on it for at least 3 months now and it's 90% complete, I've been able to keep motivated and I've learned lot along the way.
I just felt that this was the right path to go for me, I didn't feel the need have someone as a parter on this. I may be wrong in a long run but for now I'm pretty satisfied with what I've done.
Obviously I don't agree with YC rule here, I understand some of their view points , but not everything is true or false. Some great projects maybe aren't being looked into because of the single-founder rule.
But then again, you don't have to apply to YC or any funding, try something else, or simple bootstrap you idea and see how it goes.
Being a single founder is hard, you have to deal with everything from incorporating, accounting, writing code, design, worry about SEO, how to introduce your project to the world get some momentum, etc..
Plus, add that to the fact that I'm from Europe, VC is very complicated here.
But because it's hard we should be more appreciated and not put aside.
I'm working on it for at least 3 months now and it's 90% complete, I've been able to keep motivated and I've learned lot along the way.
I just felt that this was the right path to go for me, I didn't feel the need have someone as a parter on this. I may be wrong in a long run but for now I'm pretty satisfied with what I've done.
Obviously I don't agree with YC rule here, I understand some of their view points , but not everything is true or false. Some great projects maybe aren't being looked into because of the single-founder rule.
But then again, you don't have to apply to YC or any funding, try something else, or simple bootstrap you idea and see how it goes.