Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In • Hacker News Board

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by craze3 » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 10:33 PM UTC

I guess this is more motivation to work on my actual YC application :)

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by w_allDueRespect » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 10:33 PM UTC

Yeah, this was totally not cool. I much like most of you was not expecting to get accepted, I basically applied for the hell of it. None the less, it was quite a let down to receive that second email. Especially after telling a few family and friends. Kind of sucks, but hey it was an accident all we can do is move past it.

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by m00dy » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 10:33 PM UTC

I got the same and this is not cool

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by torartc » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 10:33 PM UTC

greysteil wrote: post #20

So much love for everyone who received an "accepted" email in error. Don't let it get you down. I just got rejected with https://dependabot.com despite $6k MRR and 2,000 active users. I'm sure there are lots of other great companies in the same situation - let's keep building great things.

Thank you.

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by RedneckBob » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 10:35 PM UTC

WTF? A rollercoaster for sure. You're in! You're out! Boooo!

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by roynal » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 10:36 PM UTC

Startup school's valuable first lesson in customer communication and PR is right here. Well, software screwed up the experience and crushed the expectations of so many, including me. Moving on :)...

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by chrisherd » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 10:36 PM UTC

You’d expect this from other accelerators, everyone holds YC to higher standards.

I don’t think it’s wrong to expect better in this instance. In the age of social media news travels fast. I’d received congratulatory messages from several YC alum within 10 minutes of the first email.

That’s life.

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by nautical » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 10:36 PM UTC

Not cool at all ...

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by soneca » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 10:36 PM UTC

mwelwa wrote: post #17

I got the same email. Accepted then apologies. I’m not sure what the audit school is? I’m so confused

"Audit school" is just watching the lectures online.

Re: Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In

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Post by w_allDueRespect » Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 10:36 PM UTC

greysteil wrote: post #20

So much love for everyone who received an "accepted" email in error. Don't let it get you down. I just got rejected with https://dependabot.com despite $6k MRR and 2,000 active users. I'm sure there are lots of other great companies in the same situation - let's keep building great things.

Thank you for that. The worst part though is the part where they say "You got accepted to audit the course" .... doesn't everyone get accepted to audit it?