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

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

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Post by twitter_v2 »

dawie wrote: post #26
StavrosK wrote: post #6

Will rejected applicants also receive emails?

I got a very nice rejection email last year. Here it is: We're sorry to say we couldn't accept your proposal for funding.Please don't take it personally. The quality of the applications continues to increase with each cycle, and since there's a limit on the number of interviews we can do, we had to turn away a lot of genuinely promising groups. Another reason you shouldn't take this personally is that we know we make…

So how did it go go for you post YC? Did you progress? Or did you apply again?

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

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Post by davidcuddeback »

shib71 wrote: post #9
pclark wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I got a kick out of saying that when I flew back from New Zealand last week. My flight left around 7:00pm New Zealand time and arrived around 1:00pm California time on the same day (crossed the international date line), so I could tell people "my flight left 6 hours from now."

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

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Post by Seantron »

prawn wrote: post #24
[deleted] wrote: post #20

[deleted]

He means to include it in your HN profile, not as a reply to the topic. You should be able to do that here if you're logged in: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Seantron

Thanks, sorry, I'm freakin' sick with a crazy head cold. Sigh.

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

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Post by MrFlibble »

pg wrote: post #28
MrFlibble wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

See, this is where a fake notification date for the 3rd could be useful. That way when you get notified a day early on the 2nd, you are pleasantly surprised and haven't been dwelling on it all day.

10 pm is a fake notification time.

Ha! I like the cut of your jib.

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

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Post by nkassis »

StavrosK wrote: post #5
boredguy8 wrote: post #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 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.

Well they probably have and automated script for rejection letters. Too many applications to do by hand.
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