# Y Combinator Application Video — Talking Points

> **Rules from YC:** 1 minute. Founders talking. No script — use bullet points only. Talk like you're explaining to a friend.

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## Your Bullet Points (≈60 seconds)

**[0:00–0:10] Who you are**
- "Hey, I'm Garfield Heron, solo founder of SquareMCP."
- "I'm a builder who's been in the trenches of API integrations for years."

**[0:10–0:25] The problem**
- "Every company now needs to post to TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Facebook, and email."
- "Right now that's 9 different APIs, 9 different auth flows, 9 different docs, 9 different failure modes."
- "Engineers spend weeks wiring this up. Then it breaks when TikTok changes their API or Meta deprecates a permission."

**[0:25–0:40] What SquareMCP is**
- "SquareMCP is one API that connects to all of them."
- "You authenticate once per platform through our dashboard, then call one endpoint: `publish_post` or `send_message`."
- "We handle the tokens, the rate limits, the retries, the API changes."
- "It's built on the Model Context Protocol — an open standard — so AI agents can use it too."

**[0:40–0:52] Traction / proof**
- "We've got the full TikTok sandbox working, Facebook Graph API, and SMTP/email."
- "We're live at squaremcp.com with per-user credential storage, usage tracking, and invoice-based billing."
- "TikTok app review is in progress."

**[0:52–1:00] Why you, why now**
- "I lived this pain. I'm the exact person to fix it."
- "AI agents need to post to social too — and they need a standard way to do it. MCP is that standard."
- "We're building the infrastructure layer that every AI-native company will need."

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## Recording Tips

1. **Use your phone or laptop webcam** — 1080p is plenty. Good lighting matters more than camera quality.
2. **Look at the lens, not the screen.** It feels like eye contact.
3. **Don't memorize.** Glance at these bullet points, then talk naturally. Stumbling is fine — YC prefers real over polished.
4. **One continuous take.** No cuts, no B-roll, no music. Just you talking.
5. **Background:** clean wall, or a desk with a monitor showing your product. Nothing distracting.

## After Recording

1. Export your raw video as `my-recording.mp4` (1920×1080 ideally)
2. Replace the placeholder in `YCAppVideo.tsx` with an `<OffthreadVideo>` component pointing to your file
3. Re-render: `npx remotion render YCAppVideo out/final-yc-video.mp4`

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*Good luck!* 🚀
