
I got into YC S26 as a solo founder! The last 15 months looked something like this: > Started an API company from scratch > Realized building infrastructure is insanely hard > Grew slowly for months > Then all at once > Reached 210 paying customers > Landed 10 unicorns + 70 VC-backed startups > Started telling customers "not yet" because I couldn't afford to build everything they wanted > Wait, I actually need funding > Applied to YC > Rejected > Doubled revenue > Applied again Today I'm in. To all my customers who trusted me when I was just some random dude from the internet, thank you.



















