Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

41–50 of 62 posts

Re: Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder

#41

Post by echair »

arthurw wrote: post #31

Guys, remember, Ycombinator is a great resource but you'll see that some of the ventures they've backed are either completely stupid, already invented by google or simply not existing today because even they failed. Ycombinator seems to be seeking a very specific set of ideas and type of team. My personal opinion is that this lack of diversity in type of ideas and teams doesn't contribute much to the growth of their…

lack of diversity in type of ideas

news site: http://reddit.com

geolocation on cellphones: http://loopt.com

form builder: http://wufoo.com

server administration: http://virtualmin.com

electronic components: http://octopart.com

Etc, etc. Lack of diversity? It seems like these ideas span the whole range of Internet startups.

Re: Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder

#43

Post by honeyman »

It is the 30-th already, and neither from our team got any response yet (anyone else haven't got a response till now too? Or is that we so unlucky?). Checked in the trash folder, under the subfolders, and in the outbox (just to be sure). My ISP will kill me for DDOSing their IMAP.

Of course, we won't stop our project if not invited by Paul-and-the-team. Together with Y, or separately, we'll keep working on it, and, as every self-confident startupper does, we truly believe into it and are sure that it will hit the Web, gain several billions and finally takeover both Google and Apple, so that every investor-who-ignored-us will kick themselves thinking of missed profit...

... but holy, where is that email?

Re: Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder

#45

Post by ram1024 »

honeyman wrote: post #43

It is the 30-th already, and neither from our team got any response yet (anyone else haven't got a response till now too? Or is that we so unlucky?). Checked in the trash folder, under the subfolders, and in the outbox (just to be sure). My ISP will kill me for DDOSing their IMAP. Of course, we won't stop our project if not invited by Paul-and-the-team. Together with Y, or separately, we'll keep working on it, and, a…

still missing mail as well. you get google and apple and i'll take amazon and ebay. deal?

Re: Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder

#46

Post by bporterfield »

honeyman wrote: post #43

It is the 30-th already, and neither from our team got any response yet (anyone else haven't got a response till now too? Or is that we so unlucky?). Checked in the trash folder, under the subfolders, and in the outbox (just to be sure). My ISP will kill me for DDOSing their IMAP. Of course, we won't stop our project if not invited by Paul-and-the-team. Together with Y, or separately, we'll keep working on it, and, a…

I'm still waiting on a response too...maybe it's some kind of YC startup challenge; none of the undecideds get notified, and the team that handles the pressure the best gets the final spot!

Re: Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder

#47

Post by honeyman »

bporterfield wrote: post #46
honeyman wrote: post #43

It is the 30-th already, and neither from our team got any response yet (anyone else haven't got a response till now too? Or is that we so unlucky?). Checked in the trash folder, under the subfolders, and in the outbox (just to be sure). My ISP will kill me for DDOSing their IMAP. Of course, we won't stop our project if not invited by Paul-and-the-team. Together with Y, or separately, we'll keep working on it, and, a…

I'm still waiting on a response too...maybe it's some kind of YC startup challenge; none of the undecideds get notified, and the team that handles the pressure the best gets the final spot!

Or is that a challenge of self-sufficiency in an ICFPC style? "Claiming you are a hacker but crying you haven't received a response? Come to our server and get your response yourself!"

Re: Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder

#48

Post by ram1024 »

honeyman wrote: post #47
bporterfield wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm still waiting on a response too...maybe it's some kind of YC startup challenge; none of the undecideds get notified, and the team that handles the pressure the best gets the final spot!

Or is that a challenge of self-sufficiency in an ICFPC style? "Claiming you are a hacker but crying you haven't received a response? Come to our server and get your response yourself !"

okay, we've got 1 spot left but i'm tired of sifting through these entries. let's cagematch the remaining 50 groups and see who's left standing...

should have done that from the beginning IMHO. i fight dirty

Re: Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder

#49

Post by pg »

bigthboy wrote: post #5

GMail > PG? Fail :P oh well, onward and upward I suppose, can't let something like this knock you down. Like it was said many many times. Everyone who didn't make it, please, by all means, keep moving forward because this is not a death certificate.

Like it was said many many times. Everyone who didn't make it, please, by all means, keep moving forward because this is not a death certificate.

This is an important point. I would hate to think that we might be discouraging any of the startups we didn't invite to interviews. It's not just to make people feel better that we talk in the "no" email about how bad we are at judging startups. It's really true. The single biggest topic of conversation within YC is how we can get better at it.

In fact, as we often find ourselves saying to YC-funded startups when they're looking for their next round, practically all investors suck at judging startups. But we probably do worse than most, because we have to judge so many based on so little information.

Re: Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder

#50

Post by arthurw »

tdavis wrote: post #33
arthurw wrote: post #31

Guys, remember, Ycombinator is a great resource but you'll see that some of the ventures they've backed are either completely stupid, already invented by google or simply not existing today because even they failed. Ycombinator seems to be seeking a very specific set of ideas and type of team. My personal opinion is that this lack of diversity in type of ideas and teams doesn't contribute much to the growth of their…

This is silly. And by silly I mean moronic. You can't outsource an entire start-up, especially without more than $15,000. Hell, we couldn't manage to successfully get a Wordpress template created when we supplied a full PSD and offered $300 for it . Talk about epic goddamn fail. You realize the whole "Clone Amazon for me, $100-500" thing doesn't actually work, right? And look at the last batch of YC companies, will y…

I definitely see your point and by no means am I advocating for your typical "send it to China or India for $100" gig. My point is that if you are not a programmer and trying to enter this arena, it's not the end of the world. The value is in your idea, your ability to network, market yourself and create a solid team with well-rounded skills.

Ycombinator definitely has some diverse ideas many of which are fantastic. Like any start-up catalyst, sure, they have backed some ideas that have already been out there to some degree or are no longer around--but that is totally to be expected. There will always be some overlap and like any regular distribution bell curve will show us, some will fail, some will surpass our expectations and rest will be in the middle. I have a great deal of respect for all that Ycombinator does and the people involved. Good luck guys!

Post reply on HN