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This morning I read a tweet by Alexis Ohanaian about being rejected and eventually getting into Y Combinator. It reminded me of my own rejection post from 2007 on Hacker News. Back…

These guys truly get the whole "Social" thing.

If anyone is interested in going to this awesome Battle of the tech bands event, comment here with a way to get in touch with you. I have a 10 free tickets to give away.

Bandsintown is giving away 5 pairs of tickets, so leave a comment here and they are yours. http://www.bandsintown.com/event/604111 Information from Xconomy about the event: We set …

Bandsintown is giving away 5 pairs of tickets, so leave a comment here and they are yours. http://www.bandsintown.com/event/604111 Information from Xconomy about the event: We set …

Links to the project and pics: http://www.trummerkind.com/mall/Living_in_the_Mall.html

The Article: http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2007/... Pics and a video http://www.trummerkind.com/mall/Living_in_the_Mall.html

Stick with it. Nice start. I like the improved logo from last time i looked as well.

Cool. Let me know if you ever want any feedback or anything like that. Im always down for brainshares.

Nice essay. A nice moral booster.

Cool. Yeah I was hoping you guys got to go out a bit. Thats cool that some of the music companies are choosing NYC. Makes sense. Which company are you with? Reble is that still the…

Did any of this sessions YC group enjoy the city of boston? Im a Boston native and out of everything I have seen so far it seems that the overall feeling was that Boston doesnt mak…

This is really good advice, that is the real target market and those are the users who would eventually become our community.

Cant blame the user though. We may need to clarify this somehow.

Ya Def. We are working to change that for sure.

What shows did you add? there is no approval process. When you add them they should just appear on the according artist or venue pages. One problem I had before, was i added shows …

Yes i agree, there nothing better than a Eureka moment, when all of a sudden you see clearly and the solution just seems to show itself to you.

Do the HackerNews Readers have any constructive critism for us? anything is good. We still have a long ways to go but the more input we have the better. Thanks for the help in adva…

You are right, I would comply and in my opinion the wording doesn't really matter that much. I think the readers are smart enough to understand that "Rejected YCombinator company" …

Ha i like that.

yeah I like that. Just makes it an easy way to check out the companies that have some kind of relationship with hackernews and YC.

That does make sense, and I think it is natural for a Ycombinator applicant to try and highlight their startups here. I do not mind if you change the URL as well. I think the sugge…

Maybe in the future companies could just use "YC funded company" or "YC applicant" if they felt the need to highlight it.