Us right after the YC advisory call with Diana Hu on 8/13, 3:50 pm. The birth of Moonshot.
big news, opentrade is pivoting. and here is why.
this is a picture of us right after the YC advisory call with Diana Hu on 8/13, 3:50 pm, when we realized we were set on pivoting back to our original idea: Moonshot. the personal AI agent that knows you better than anyone.
the yc sign at night
we did $1.4m trading options. we had a lot of fun building OpenTrade. we reached 225k+ users on a total of 12k USD, aka an insane $0.08 CAC per user.
the apartment
but at the end of the day, we made a big mistake chasing glory in the hopes of making YC history, instead of focusing on what we truly loved building. aka Moonshot.
yc puffer mirror selfie
more importantly, our team realized that despite our 67/10 skill in marketing, the legal process of becoming a proper brokerage and reimagining the trading UX would never happen at the warp speed we wanted to move at.
67.67 days
so thank you to everyone who has supported our journey up to this point. we'll be taking a step back from the hungry glory chasing, but i promise we'll be back. we're deferring till the next YC batch to challenge the greats once more.
the yc sign by day
peace out. even when i'm down, i'm still up. this was the birth of Moonshot.
on the plane
have you ever walked away from something you spent a whole summer on? Hit reply. We read all of them.
- Dylan
P.S. If you run your life with AI, get ready for the next step.
