Show HN: Practice for Your YC Interviews with Betafi

Show HN: Practice for Your YC Interviews with Betafi(betafi.co)

12 points by sherbondy 3 years ago | 2 comments

Hi folks,

Betafi is a product feedback platform build around moderated user interviews and usability testing sessions.

To help folks applying for the W23 batch with interviews coming up this week, we just launched a project templates feature and catered onboarding for fellow founders to practice and conduct mock YC interviews with each other.

You can use Betafi's interview script feature, "instant tags," and timestamped notes to take turns annotating rough spots and practicing rapid-fire responses to questions with your cofounder(s), to try and make the most out of those 10 minutes during your real YC interview.

A big part of the joy of building Betafi is getting to support other early-stage founders who wind up using our product in interesting and creative ways.

This project came out of several teams applying to the W23 batch, who organically started using Betafi to help prepare for their interviews, so we thought we might as well build "first class" support for it!

Do let us know what you think, keen to hear your feedback, especially given this is a slightly different use-case from what we initially designed the product for!

rishsriv 3 years ago |

Great tool! Some feedback on your landing page: the Start Practicing CTA button at the bottom of the page should ideally link to the link [1] in your "Start a new YC interview prep session to kick-start your prep" option. Not just the login screen. I was confused about how to start a practice interview after I logged in.

[1] https://app.betafi.co/studies?create=true&template_id=p_wqzp...

sherbondy 3 years ago | |

Ah, yeah this landing page is optimized for new accounts. For new accounts that use the registration link on the page, we preload the YC prep project template on their accounts.

But you’re right, we should be able to devise a way to use a single link for both cases, new and existing users. We’ll try to tweak the setup here to better accommodate existing users!