Hi Sam, I read a post of you guys saying that a lot of founders think they're too early to apply to YC. That's my case. We're just in our first thousands of dollars in revenue, and honestly when I think of YC - no matter how much confident we are with our business - I believe we don't really stand a change against other applicants. Any specific advice/thoughts on this?

Many of our most successful companies entered YC with little more than an idea. Slope is more important than Y intercept - https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-profound-life-lesson...

Every batch, we fund some people with just an idea. And lots and lots of people with just a prototype. The bar is higher but it's clearly possible.

Glad to hear that. Thanks!

I would be more concerned that you would think that vs that being your situation.

1) Will YC Fellowship companies be more keen to be accepted to the YC traditional program?

According to FAQ on the website, no bias as such.

I'm wondering until when we'll have to wait. That shit man.

Hi folks, for those of you who did build or is building a subscription business, you know that dealing with metrics is a big deal.

When learning about SaaS metrics some time ago I ended up on the famous David Skok's article "SaaS Metrics 2.0" and found that most part of my friends co-founders were using the very same spreadsheet from this article.

The result of this studying is http://saasmetrics.co, an SaaS product to manage your subscription business metrics.

The first version is an MVP that allows you to manually input your data or use or well document API to build your own integrations. But we know that the hard thing about metrics is to keep them up to date, so our near future road map includes connection with different platforms to get data 100% automatically.

We know a few good tools out there focusing this problem - such as baremetrics.io - but we really want to cover the whole thing about saas metrics, and allow you not just to connect your payment platform (such as stripe), but also your marketing tools such as Google Analytics, Hubspot, your financial apps and ERPs such as quickbooks, and more to come. And of course you can always build your own integrations to input data using our API.

We're in closed beta with a few customers selected by hand, but you can see a full demo working here: http://demo.saasmetrics.co

We're also working on a comprehensive wiki for SaaS metrics. Check out this example: http://saasmetrics.co/monthly-recurring-revenue

I'd like to hear your thoughts and comments.

Thanks, Leo.