[ned_at_codomain]

Speaking as a YC-backed startup founder myself, you should have more confidence in your ideas! But not for the reasons you might think.

It's not that your ideas are good or bad. Most of us have mostly bad ideas. Some of us sometimes have good ideas. But there's really no way to tell if your idea is good or bad until you try. No amount of intellectualizing will give you a trustworthy answer.

We started our business with what seemed (to me and my smart friends) like a great idea. It made tons of sense. I had this whole 48-phase plan for how we'd conquer the world. And then ... it turned out that people didn't really want the thing. The idea was actually bad.

By contrast, the business we're working on now has started to work pretty well. I have to admit, the business didn't make much sense to me at first. I could conjure a million reasons we'd struggle to compete. And then ... when we went to market, the thing started to work. Still early days, but there are lots of positive indications.

My biggest lesson in the last year-and-a-half has been that I just don't know that much :)

[greenfish6]

I would also strongly recommend talking to customers and building out your idea ASAP as a mandatory first step to determining if it's a "good idea". the YC mantra :)

[keeptrying]

Great name for your startup btw. :) Didn't even need to click on it to know what it does.