Vincent Banks

I was prepping my YC application. I wanted to know: has anyone already done this idea?

YC's search gave me nothing useful. So I spent a weekend scraping their Algolia API, built a local database, ran embeddings against my pitch... and found 3 companies that had tried it.

We just shipped a big update to Easy Scribe. You already get an AI-generated step-by-step doc from a single recording. Now you can convert that same doc into an interactive walkthrough: a clickable, player-based tour your audience follows at their own pace.

We launched a SaaS recently and noticed a cluster of accounts created within minutes of each other that never confirmed email or returned after signup. We want to keep our user table healthy without accidentally deleting real users.

Curious what other founders do in practice, more specifically:

• Do you auto-delete accounts after X days without email confirmation? If so, what timeframe worked for you?

• Do you keep soft-deleted rows for analytics or GDPR reasons? Any retention windows you recommend?

• If you have automated detection, what signals did you use (IP clusters; identical metadata; signup rate spikes)?