Can one apply to Apply HN if one applied to S16?
Or any other time in the past?
Yep.
Ask HN: Pick startups for YC to fund
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#12Will there be a new toplink for "Apply HN" submissions? I think random sorting on that page would be a good idea to encourage all submissions get an opportunity for discussion.
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#13Simple question: If we've already done a Show HN can we do a Apply HN?
Yep, they are different things.
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#14I feel it would be less drama-inducing, and probably as effective, to run a lottery.
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#15I see a lot of 'entrepreneurs' who spend their time getting their fb friends to vote for them in local startup pitch competitions, they don't actually spend any time making a company, but are very effective at getting votes.
The HN community might just be a better barometer, hope to see this experiment work out and bring attention to worthy and unnoticed startups.
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#16sounds like my suggestion was a bad idea. (won't let me delete).
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#17Ranking by upvotes/comments seems highly problematic, even with HN's antibrigade features. A) There are many external factors that can implicitly cap the number of upvotes/comments. (time submitted, amount of competition, etc.) HN has repost rules to alleviate this problem: would Apply HN posts be able to repost too? B) Not to mention that it encourages sockpuppet voting/commenting, especially since there is a high r…
I think we're on the same page to some extent. What I meant by 'ranking by comments' is that we want the ranking to depend on the quality of the discussion. That's the one thing that can't be faked.
That's how the ranking of HN stories works now. It's a combination of upvotes and human curation by users (e.g. flagging) and moderators.
So there's going to be some combination of technical and non-technical factors. How exactly will that work? We don't know yet. Let's see what happens and figure it out together. That's part of the experiment: we'll figure it out in the open and adapt to feedback. But let's wait until we have some data to look at.
FWIW, my experience with HN is that genuine community interest is relatively easy to recognize.
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#18What's the incentive for helping you pick the next big startup? What if you gave users a trivial amount of equity for their input?
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#19Will there be a new toplink for "Apply HN" submissions? I think random sorting on that page would be a good idea to encourage all submissions get an opportunity for discussion.
Probably a top link, yes, but in good minimalist form we'll wait until it's clear we need it. (Edit: we need it. In the meantime, please use the Algolia link I included at the top. It's not like we wrote code for this in advance or anything—that would be cheating :))
Random sorting is a good idea. We'll think about that.
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#20Will there be a new toplink for "Apply HN" submissions? I think random sorting on that page would be a good idea to encourage all submissions get an opportunity for discussion.
That sounds like a really good idea to me. It could help normalize things so that an application doens't get dinged for posting at the wrong time, etc.