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If you applied to YC this cycle, please put your email in your profile

#1
A significant number of applicants seem to have overlooked this part of the application instructions:

    1. Please put your email address in the email field of your profile.
If you applied this cycle, please do that, or we'll have no way to notify you later today.

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#3

on behalf of everyone in the chat room who is incessantly asking, when should we expect notification (either way). people are consumed by this question and meaningful business/coding discussion has ceased.

last time we got our email 6 hours from now.

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#4
I'm curious, if you have a moment PG: how much does not doing something like that peeve you?

On the one hand, such detail-oriented mistakes aren't necessarily bad, especially in people who know how to notice when they miss them and it matters.

On the other hand, sometimes details can kill you: You show up 15 minutes late when it matters.

Does someone not including their e-mail ever push you from "go" to "no go" on an application? Why or why not?

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#5

I'm curious, if you have a moment PG: how much does not doing something like that peeve you? On the one hand, such detail-oriented mistakes aren't necessarily bad, especially in people who know how to notice when they miss them and it matters. On the other hand, sometimes details can kill you: You show up 15 minutes late when it matters . Does someone not including their e-mail ever push you from "go" to "no go" on a…

I suspect that, by the time they check the profile for an email, they've committed enough to at least try and contact the guy some other way.

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#7

on behalf of everyone in the chat room who is incessantly asking, when should we expect notification (either way). people are consumed by this question and meaningful business/coding discussion has ceased.

Just have to pull through and get that coding done. The anxiety you are feeling right now is actually adrenaline. Just use it to your advantage to get more done. Nothing changes after we hear back. We still work whether it be with YC or not. Life goes on and so does our companies.

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#9
post #3

on behalf of everyone in the chat room who is incessantly asking, when should we expect notification (either way). people are consumed by this question and meaningful business/coding discussion has ceased.

last time we got our email 6 hours from now.

It's not often you get to say something like that outside of science fiction.

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#10

on behalf of everyone in the chat room who is incessantly asking, when should we expect notification (either way). people are consumed by this question and meaningful business/coding discussion has ceased.

Probably before 10 pacific.
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