I sense a marketing opportunity for blackberry in this thread! :) yay for push email
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I got a rejection email just now
Bummer. I guess that finally puts a fork in the karma theory of YC admissions.
There were too many reasons against me in my application. The idea is weak, poorly explained, no demo, etc. My cofounder also dropped out on me after we submitted the application so I would have had to disclose that I'm now a single founder which would have guaranteed rejection. Never mind, on to plan B.
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#85Got a thumbs-up @5pm EST. It was a generic msg, sent to a suppressed mailing list. knewjax, we did not provide a demo or prototype. We did, however, spend quite a bit of time in writing a detailed reply to a question pg sent by email about 5 days ago.
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just got my rejection. :(
Rejected. I am curious. Did all the accepted applications provide a demo or prototype link in their application?
Actually, during PG's talk at UC Berkeley ( where I go to school ), I went up and asked him if a demo is important..etc and he advised me to put up a screencast instead, so we did that. I don't know if they actually viewed it because I can't tell from the server logs.
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#88Congrats to all winners. For anyone who won't be in this YC batch, here is an idea.
I suggest joining my YC alum startup, Xobni, instead. Sometimes great hackers joinup instead of startup. That is what Paul Buchheit did : http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/03/looking-for-co-founder-try-attending.html
send resumes: http://www.xobni.com/jobs.php
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Rejected. I am curious. Did all the accepted applications provide a demo or prototype link in their application?
Actually, during PG's talk at UC Berkeley ( where I go to school ), I went up and asked him if a demo is important..etc and he advised me to put up a screencast instead, so we did that. I don't know if they actually viewed it because I can't tell from the server logs.
check the apache log, if you get few ips, use geo ip (don't remember exactly the site) to see if the requests are coming from their area.