I'm Ved, I'm the founder and CEO of DoShare - Privacy Focused Offline First Cloud Storage. We applied to YC last two batches and got rejected, and it's not just you roughly only 2% of the total applicants get selected for YC's in person events. But there are a lot of awesome startups that get left out each year, or worse get closed due to financial reasons or not enough momentum from users, we've particularly faced this problem. And ever since the launch of AI, there is more than average bias while selecting startups by VCs and Angel Investors, initially I was very much interested in YC because they offered fixed valuation for early stage startups which is what all "a founder can really dream of", but recently comparing their mission of "Make Things People Want" to stats of new batches it seems they want more top b-schools students, but this is YC, they keep experimenting with startups and that is also one of the things what makes YC great. But due to this many great ideas fail to take off, and very dumb ideas(idk) can gain very much attraction before failing, so, in the spirit of Christmas and New Year, I'm hoping to provide startups all of us a second chance at exploring.

So, we're launching demoday.live a 4 week long demo event focused on indie-founders, solo-builders and bootstrapped startups. Here's what you should not expect from this event:

- 100% ensured funding

- Unbiased Decisions (we'll try to be fair)

instead: - A platform to (re-)launch your product/company - Introduction to community (probable beta testers and reviewers)

- An experience of YC Demo Day - Think of it as Show HN but live

Based on volunteers and various resources we will help you improve your pitches and help them bring across investors, startup enthusiasts, and other people interested in your field.

If you're interested in volunteering this event (i.e. totally remote), we require people to for building tech stuff and media promotion, designing plus operations, you will be part of team that is managing infrastructure and ensuring people are able to join and interact with founders and startups.

Join us on Discord - https://discord.com/invite/gu2uqMPpPt

If you're a startup and are interested in sponsoring the event you can send a mail at support@doshare.me with the title containing "[DemoDay Sponsor]"

If you want to apply for DemoDay Live send your application to support@doshare.me with title containing "[DemoDay Apply]" with detail about your startup including product links, pitch, how you started, revenue, industry and your contact information(we will get back to you in 2 days).

Note: DemoDay Live will be held every weekend for next 4 weeks, depending on the week you apply in you will be provided a slot to present your pitches.

If you're a tech junkie like me save the dates 14 December and 15 December for first DemoDay it will be held at demoday.live from 12:00 GMT

*Highly Inspired by OpenAI / Supabase Launch Week and YC Demo Day