YC SUS: Eric Migicovsky hosts founder office hours
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Eric Migicovsky, course facilitator at Startup School, hosts online office hours with Startup School companies. Office hours are 20-30 minute sessions where YC partners dive into a founder's specific problem and brainstorm solutions. These are accelerated sessions with companies signed up via Startup School forums, conducted publicly. Advice is kept focused for broad value. Office hours help founders escape isolation, talk through problems, and solve them by articulating them aloud. Recommendation: founders talk founder-to-founder about problems.
Company: Boxscore (boxscore.live). Product: Beta futures gaming platform with trivia about televised future events (mostly sports like NFL playoffs, entertainment like Oscars). Users predict outcomes (e.g., who wins match, best picture) and play against friends in groups, not the house. Eventually gambling/betting, but not monetizing yet.
Stage: Live beta with 240+ users last month for NFL playoffs, 20 active users now, 300+ signups (half organic, half promo). Proof of concept as second screen during live events (e.g., users requested scoring for Oscars). Solo founder since June, launched beta, hit wall end of January due to burnout. Accepting $50k investment, hiring engineering students from alma mater in Mexico at $5/hour (one working, couple more potential). Plans to raise more.
Future plans: Add utility (live scores, previews, recaps) better than existing platforms using real-time user preferences (e.g., from event selections). Covers multiple sports (Grand Prix, World Cup, Super Bowl) as sports fans follow multiple year-round, targeting Mexico (Liga MX, Champions League, European leagues). Aims to be comprehensive second screen for all followed sports, showing performance vs friends, stats during match.
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