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I felt really downbeat for a while after getting that redaction email. This comment picked me right back up. Thank you.
My cofounder just texted me: "Yeah, our first rejection, hopefully there’s way way more :)" I hope you have many more rejections in your future, too AniketP1! We'll be out there getting turned down for our wacky ideas too, right there with you! :)
Mistakes happen, but it should not have taken them over two hours to contact people who'd been celebrating their acceptance. We got the "you're in!" email, and the whole team was pumped. Having to go back to them hours later to let them down was really hard to do. The fact that Ycombinator sent the "oops, sorry!" email from a do-not-reply address and basically did nothing to make up for it showed a real lack of respe…
I agree - not only should we have not made the error but we should have caught it and fixed it faster. My apologies.
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My cofounder just texted me: "Yeah, our first rejection, hopefully there’s way way more :)" I hope you have many more rejections in your future, too AniketP1! We'll be out there getting turned down for our wacky ideas too, right there with you! :)
We are entrepreneurs, we eat NOs for breakfasts.
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.
Not sure if it'll help anyone, but I feel better when I see the backgrounds of the people who got in:
https://theymadethat.com/organizations/d55c2ee1-c72e-568e-bb...
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My cofounder just texted me: "Yeah, our first rejection, hopefully there’s way way more :)" I hope you have many more rejections in your future, too AniketP1! We'll be out there getting turned down for our wacky ideas too, right there with you! :)
We are entrepreneurs, we eat NOs for breakfasts.
Guys - we are deeply sorry for this screw-up. I know we got people's hopes up only to let you down, and I feel terrible about it. While it doesn't excuse our mistake, for what it's worth, Startup School makes the classes and all the materials available online to everyone. So even if you didn't get accepted to the advisor track, we hope you will follow along, watch the videos, and find the material useful. My apologie…
Could you shine some light on what your criteria were for acceptance? I have now seen a few projects that were actually accepted. They seemed pretty generic and not at all what I thought would have been accepted. As products, the only benefit they seemed to have were that they were in maybe the alpha or beta stage of development. For our future reference, could you please elaborate a bit on what you were looking for in these applications?
P.S. If you were accepted, congratulations! I am not saying your product is generic :)
I received the following second email "We are deeply sorry, but an error occurred in the software that triggers acceptance emails and you were actually supposed to receive the email below accepting you into the Startup School Advisor Track." But now I want to be super sure ... ¿Are We In? If I login into the StartupSchool page , I don´t see anything yet.
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so how many companies are actually accepted into the course?
Not sure the number was specified, but seems like >100 Since 100 will be chosen to receive the 10,000$
Mistakes happen, but it should not have taken them over two hours to contact people who'd been celebrating their acceptance. We got the "you're in!" email, and the whole team was pumped. Having to go back to them hours later to let them down was really hard to do. The fact that Ycombinator sent the "oops, sorry!" email from a do-not-reply address and basically did nothing to make up for it showed a real lack of respe…
You're right - it took us a while to realize we had made the mistake, and then we responded as fast as we could.
Ran a legit email service for over a decade and at one point we had list with 800k people it, I'd pucker up every time I had to hit "send".