Signal Line — Building a Brain Rot IDE

Chapters

1. 0:00 Cold open — best YC advice
2. 0:41 Welcome to Signal Line
3. 0:53 Who are Kevin and Richard?
4. 1:29 Two middle-school friends start building
5. 2:27 First idea — AI ads and RAG
6. 3:19 "I hate this idea" — getting rejected by YC
7. 4:33 Seven YC applications
8. 5:17 The pivot 24 hours before the interview
9. 6:35 YC's best advice: iteration speed over everything
10. 7:27 YC's worst advice: they're too nice
11. 8:05 The truth about fundraising and pivoting
12. 9:08 Why we hired two interns during YC
13. 10:12 Convincing people to join your startup
14. 11:16 What the Chad IDE actually does
15. 13:55 The world's first brain-rot IDE
16. 14:33 Go-to-market strategy: have fun
17. 15:24 No framework, just vibes
18. 16:17 Where we go to think (spoiler: nowhere)
19. 17:08 Advice for early-stage founders