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One of my favorite from W12, best of luck!

People make crappy products then slap patents on them so no one can compete with them. For the greater good of society this should be illegal, competition breeds innovation right, if you make something crappy, you should welcome someone else to make it better, after all, if it was something you actually used, YOU would want it to be the best, no?

Also, patent trolls that create patents for ideas they have, and are completely incapable of executing.

Software patents are crap.

jazzychad is clearly a smart guy, and capable of running things early - people like pg know that he has what it takes to get the company to a certain point, but also knows that jazzychad knows when he needs help, and isnt afraid to say so, a very important trait for successful founders.

9 times out of 10 you've come up with this idea on the crapper, in the shower, or at the bar with your friends - spend more time thinking at a high level, who will use this (target market), how much money could i make (market size), and what will it need (design, development[mobile, web], advertising, sales team, support, infrastructure), and how long it will take. After running through these things, the result is not likely to be you deciding to apply to YC as a single founder. [see last paragraph of comment if you just can't find a co-founder, it happens]

People who are capable of executing as a single founder will do so, and people like pg can see this by looking at the individuals history, and talking with them about their new idea.

Single founders that fail are founders who are overly confident, execute badly, or are scared of 'big scary investors' and negative feedback (yea there are more, these are just examples). Folks like pg can see these things in people, and will deny your application, rightfully so.

If you have an idea, and you think that YOU as an individual are the perfect 'team' then apply to YC that way, if pg agrees you'll get in. I can't imagine it happens very often that people who are humble and grounded think to themselves "I don't need anyone else, I am a baus!", if you do, step back and rethink things.

If its a matter of you just not being able to find a co-founder, why not just disclose it, and ask for help rather than trying to manipulate your app, or your idea to appear as though you don't need help?

There was one in the batch that just ended - Hamilton Chan, Paperlinks: http://mashable.com/author/hamilton-chan/

When the announced this, I told my friends:

They will drop the price, and every person that owns an iPad will buy one, they might lose their ass on the hardware, but what happens when they release a really nice app store and they have a zillion people now with their product in hand?

I know it sounds far fetched, but.. its working, no? All they need now is the app store (is it already created?)

This is awesome. I love that its only a few pictures, with descriptions. The stories behind YC and all of its companies (and co-founders) are incredible.

Love the plugin, actually going to implement tonight! Would love to see callbacks though, so that we can use ajax to save tags on remove/add if need be..

Nice work!

EDIT

Would be better if the names of the elements were the same so that this could submitted as an array, the current method requires quite a bit of processing..

Documentation?

"elementname dows not match the expected format" whats the format expected?

Does it not support standard jQuery selectors? Why are you using a .find() in the example?