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Garfield 660b7cdf18 feat(remotion): YC application video template + talking points 
- Add YCAppVideo Remotion composition (1920x1080, 60s)
  - 3s intro card with founder name + company
  - 55s video placeholder with branded frame + lower thirds
  - 2s outro card with logo + tagline
- Update Root.tsx with new composition
- Add YC_APPLICATION_TALKING_POINTS.md with bullet points
  and recording tips per YC instructions
2026-05-13 14:54:48 -04:00

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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.

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."

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

Good luck! 🚀