{"id":2439,"date":"2019-07-08T12:20:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T16:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=2439"},"modified":"2019-07-08T12:20:17","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T16:20:17","slug":"startup-school-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=2439","title":{"rendered":"Startup School 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kyYHUXxyjvI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This year, Y Combinator&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ycombinator.com\/announcing-startup-school-2019\/\">Startup School<\/a> is open for everyone to register, and I&#8217;m hoping to participate. As they say on their blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today, we\u2019re opening up registration for Startup School 2019, our free online course for founders looking to get help turning an idea into a startup. The 10 week course will begin July 22, 2019 and is free for everyone to participate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They&#8217;ll also be granting equity-free $15K grants to &#8220;the most promising companies that join and complete the course.&#8221; (I still hope to apply to the core YC program, but the possibility of a $15K grant if I don&#8217;t make it would surely be nice.)<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ll also be hosting meetups \/ events around the world, one location being Washington DC, which I&#8217;ll try to make it to. (I just hope it&#8217;s not on Tuesday, September 10th, as I&#8217;m going to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kamelot.com\/\">Kamelot<\/a> concert that day. Or near the end of August, as I&#8217;ve got a sibling&#8217;s wedding to go to.)<\/p>\n<p>My startup is the AI-powered music generation web app I&#8217;ve been working on, now tentatively titled Tunesage. (Can you think of a better name?)<\/p>\n<p>I was hoping to finish a prototype of the web app by the end of this month (July 2019). I&#8217;ll still try to, but I&#8217;m also giving myself an extension until September 25th (the deadline to apply to the Y Combinator Winter 2020 batch) due to circumstances beyond my control (such as a sibling&#8217;s approaching wedding and my parents deciding now is a good time to redecorate parts of the house).<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m up to. I&#8217;ve also been learning the programming language <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rust-lang.org\/\">Rust<\/a> as I hope to use that on the music app&#8217;s back-end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, Y Combinator&#8217;s Startup School is open for everyone to register, and I&#8217;m hoping to participate. As they say on their blog: Today, we\u2019re opening up registration for Startup School 2019, our free online course for founders looking to get help turning an idea into a startup. The 10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[209,797],"tags":[798,799,786],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-Dl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2441,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions\/2441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}