[hagope]

Eat My Dust founder here. The mission statement for our company is to enable everyone to live and work in a clean and healthy environment. At first, we'll start by sampling dust from your environment and based on our analysis provide a health report and alert you to any potentially dangerous materials (and what to do about it). As we grow, we'd like to drive the price of these tests to near 0. If we are successful, we may not even need to do a test, but rather we can predict your environment based on several features that prove to be predictive across the data set.

We are still validating the idea at this point. If awarded the YC fellowship, we'd use the funds to test the market for this service. The goal is to collect data on what type of customers would use this service, what problems this would solve for them, what is total addressable market size, etc. For example, if we can acquire 100 paying customers who would be willing to pay $20 for an "Eat My Dust" report, we may end up spending $200 per customer to provide the service. However, at the end of this exercise we'd know whether or not this an idea worth pursuing further.

[dang]

From the top: "And if you're an applicant or a friend of one, please don't post in the thread below, except to answer questions about your startup."

I'm sure you just didn't see that, but we'll mark this comment off-topic.

[jedgardyson]

Hey, just wanted to point out some guidance from OP so you don't risk disqualification: "And if you're an applicant or a friend of one, please don't post in the thread below, except to answer questions about your startup."