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Y Combinator Is Now Getting Over One Application Every Minute
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#12This is seriously impressive. Speaks to the value startups anticipate getting out of the YC experience.
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#13Being someone who submitted an application around 11:59pm in a previous season, I wonder what makes people wait until the last minute. In our case it was the big decision of whether we should apply or not (we didn't have a site, didn't really talk it through among ourselves), which pretty much made the resulting rejection a self satisfying prophecy.
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#14Hey, Himani. Y Combinator Universe still has the most comprehensive unofficial collection of information for Y Combinator Applicants/Interviewees: http://ycuniverse.com/interviewees.php My best advice: Remember that Y Combinator is a means and not an end. The goal is NOT "to get into Y Combinator". The goal is to make something people want. And there are plenty of resources for start-ups beyond kissing PG's butt for…
Promoting your own websites is generally seen as ok by the HN community, but you should point out that it is your own website and avoid being self-laudatory about it (i.e. "the most comprehensive")
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
I never looked at the rate before, but I'd guess it's about the same rate we'd have had a few hours before the deadline last cycle.
Is that one new application per minute, or does it include updates to previous applications? Very impressive either way.
That's new submissions.
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#16Is this a huge leap? or similar to previous batches. I know the applications are rising each batch but i'm interested in if this is considerably higher than previous years.
I believe someone had a blog post recently where they estimated this years total batch at around 4000 based on previous years numbers and rate of increase. So ~1600 on the last day seems like it could be in the ballpark of what was expected.
We won't get 4000; closer to half that. Also, you can't simply multiply the application rate times the length of a day, because the rate gradually increases as the deadline approaches.
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#17Are there going to be any grubwith.us dinners with YC founders this term? (the last one we went to was really great).
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#18For us it was a battle of making the application better versus submitting earlier. We decided to make the application better and then submit yesterday, rather than being one of the crowd working up to the wire.
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#19Good luck with the mass volume of apps pg and friends! We've been doing a lot of updates in the last couple of days, esp today (did the final re-submit), but we initially submitted quite some time ago. I hope you all find the latest version of our app.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I believe someone had a blog post recently where they estimated this years total batch at around 4000 based on previous years numbers and rate of increase. So ~1600 on the last day seems like it could be in the ballpark of what was expected.
Interesting, I suppose people want up until the last minute to work on their application, demo, etc. Maybe they just decide to apply last minute.
:) We decided to apply early on, but wanted to have a working prototype out. Still a couple of days away from something demoable; applying in the next 2 hours.
(Node.js starts off as simple. And then as you start writing serious code, the flow control and nested callbacks begin to bite. You get back on track once you figure out various patterns of flow control (or libraries like async and Step). )