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You don't need to incorporate before YC. If you do get in, they will take care of everything for you.

Both accelerators are very competitive now - you'd be competing against other companies with established founders and companies (not just products) with real revenues.

I'm from Taiwan. 500 Startups has a pretty strong presence here, so even though I didn't technically go through their accelerator myself, I'm somewhat familiar with their program as well.

Weiting from Codementor here - I'm the author of the post. Feel free to ask any questions and I'll try to answer them here too!

thanks!

Gogoro has been making a lot of waves in Taiwan lately. A few Gogoro stores have been showing up in Taipei and they feel very much like Apple stores!

The prospect of seeing an iconic company born out of Taiwan is exciting!

I was at KeenCon when Kyle did the opening talk in front of the audience and I remembered thinking how well-spoken Kyle was and how awesome could be if I could pull it off as well.

How funny it is to look at the Startup School video now - a great story about Keen IO not getting into YC and then raised $11M+ from Sequoia!

Codementor is alive and growing - we are an open marketplace for on-demand developer help and longterm mentorship. Anyone is welcome to apply as mentors. Once you are approved, you can set your rate however you'd like.

Check us out: https://www.codementor.io

Weiting from Codementor here - actually we do have mentors for Java / C#

https://www.codementor.io/java-experts https://www.codementor.io/c_sharp-experts

Let us know how we can be helpful!

Hi there! not sure what you meant - but we're trying to provide as much help & resources as we can to help all creators out there to launch their projects this year.

We at Codementor just launched ‪#‎MakersYear‬ - an initiative to help creators launch their projects successfully in 2015 with several great companies in other verticals. Hope we can help more great projects getting launched this year!

Happy New Year!

sorry this should be fixed now.

Sorry apparently Heroku is down right now: https://status.heroku.com/

Please sign up and we will announce via our email list in upcoming weeks!

Hi Eric,

This is a great idea - we will diversify our offering as you suggested. If you have any specific recommendations on which experts you'd like us to invite - please shoot me an email. Thanks!

Try Codementor https://www.codementor.io - I'm the founder.

You'd get more personalized help and suggestions based on your specific situation.

Reminds me of SocialPicks =)

When we did our first Show HN way back in June of last year, Codementor was an one-man team and a little more than just a landing page.

The support and feedback from HN at the time made us believe and gave us the push we needed. A huge thanks to the community here! Thank you! None of these could've happened without the support here.

I understand we still have tons of work to do - any feedback would be appreciated!

We're focusing on a few selected categories in the beginning. Clojure is certainly what we'd like to get to next!

Thanks! You can name your own rate (in 15-min increments).

Yes we're currently using Screenhero and enjoying it thus far!

thank you! yes we are also big believers in the power of "quantified self" & life-logging, and we will be adding more analytics features.