Last year, we tried our hand at some new experiments to provide 1-on-1 advice out in the open. We’ve done this a few times on stage at Startup School, but we figured Hacker News might be a better way to do it at scale. 

I spent a day reviewing Show HN projects and Sam and I did online office office hours for an afternoon. You can see the results of those experiments here:

Aggregated Show HN Feedback
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9748308

Online Office Hours with Sam and Kevin
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9785533

We had such a good experience that we’ve decided to now do them every month. 

Each month, a different pair of YC partners will host office hours on HN. They’ll either be feedback on Show HN projects or answering questions voted by the community. We’ll be starting with Michael Seibel and Aaron Harris on Jan 22 at 11am PT. Michael and Aaron will be doing the office hour format on the 22nd. If you’d like help with your startup, on the day of the online office hours, post a top-level comment with a one or two sentence description of what you do and the first thing you’d like to talk about. The community will vote, and Aaron and Michael will answer the top questions.

We’ll announce the time/day/format of the HN office hours the week before they happen through a Tell HN and then the day of put up a new thread (if it’s a office hour format) for people to post their questions. If it’s a Show HN format, the partners will just add their feedback to the individual Show HN posts and we’ll put up an aggregated set of links when we’re done.