We mistakenly marked about 50 applications as late • Hacker News Board

Re: We mistakenly marked about 50 applications as late

#11

Post by Punter » Fri, Apr 08, 2011, 9:22 PM UTC

great news... these things happen

a couple of days sound good

Re: We mistakenly marked about 50 applications as late

#12

Post by blazer » Fri, Apr 08, 2011, 9:29 PM UTC

So, Rest of us will be notified to make sure that we are in that list of 50 applicants?

Re: We mistakenly marked about 50 applications as late

#13

Post by Punter » Fri, Apr 08, 2011, 9:30 PM UTC

jl wrote: post #8

karanjassar wrote: post #2

Have the rest been notified? I did submit on time but haven't heard so far.

Yes, you should have been notified. Check your spam folder perhaps.

nothing so far

Re: We mistakenly marked about 50 applications as late

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Post by mcdowall » Fri, Apr 08, 2011, 9:33 PM UTC

Thanks for the update, I did explain that to Kirsty in my mail. I know there are some folk over in the Convore chatroom in the same position, Convore's proved pretty useful today.

Re: We mistakenly marked about 50 applications as late

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Post by skrebbel » Fri, Apr 08, 2011, 9:33 PM UTC

Ok, well I'm rather new here, but if 50 applications were accidentally marked as late, does that mean there were like 100+ applications overall? That's a lot of new companies. Are all these already for real, or are the bulk of them in the "programmer with an idea" stage?

Re: We mistakenly marked about 50 applications as late

#16

Post by VaedaStrike » Fri, Apr 08, 2011, 9:36 PM UTC

Were those on-time-marked-as-late applications sent the rejection e-mail by default?

Re: We mistakenly marked about 50 applications as late

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Post by goatforce5 » Fri, Apr 08, 2011, 9:37 PM UTC

I'm totally going to pitch an application submission management system in the next round. I know of at least one potential customer.

Re: We mistakenly marked about 50 applications as late

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Post by cperciva » Fri, Apr 08, 2011, 9:37 PM UTC

skrebbel wrote: post #15

Ok, well I'm rather new here, but if 50 applications were accidentally marked as late, does that mean there were like 100+ applications overall? That's a lot of new companies. Are all these already for real, or are the bulk of them in the "programmer with an idea" stage?

Last I heard, the YC crew doesn't announce numbers because they don't want to get into phallus-measuring competitions with other organizations; but based on numbers published in the past I'm guessing somewhere between 500 and 1000 applications.

Re: We mistakenly marked about 50 applications as late

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Post by chacemuse » Fri, Apr 08, 2011, 9:43 PM UTC

Since we're already at a disadvantage of being the over-quota bunch, I say all 50 should be allowed to pitch in person if they pay for their own trips. ;)

Re: We mistakenly marked about 50 applications as late

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Post by kovar » Fri, Apr 08, 2011, 9:45 PM UTC

chacemuse wrote: post #19

Since we're already at a disadvantage of being the over-quota bunch, I say all 50 should be allowed to pitch in person if they pay for their own trips. ;)

I happen to be in California this week for a client. I'd be happy to run up to Palo Alto .... :-)