# YC Application Tips: Include a demo

**Author:** Stephanie Simon
**Type:** Video
**URL:** https://www.ycombinator.com/library/J8-yc-application-tips-include-a-demo
**YouTube ID:** cV-MwxhRTNI

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YC’s Stephanie Simon on why you should include a demo — even a rough one\! — when you apply to Y Combinator.

## Transcript

one thing that i wish more founders would include on their application is a demo of their product so many applications we get or ideas someone's been thinking about for a year with nothing done we don't care if the demo is unpolished we don't care if you're still running it locally or if it's just a csv right now the difference between nothing and something is actually huge to us it shows us that you're serious and that you can get something built
