Rejected. I'd love to know what you others are building. Started an "Ask HN" post here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3850089
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#12Rejected :/. Given the experience was useful.
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#13our demo got looked at 4 times - but we were rejected after all! Oh well - another time :)
sounds familiar. Exactly 4 times :)
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#14We just received our rejection letter. Major shame, but wasn't at all unexpected. Based on Analytics and MixPanel our demo we set up wasn't actually tried, so I guess the takeaway from this was that the application wasn't as strong as we thought. Even so, the entire process of writing the application was very rewarding. It really did help focus our direction into something concrete. Incidentally, since it's all over,…
My demo wasn't tried either (I checked everyday), nor did I have more than 4 pageviews of my video, most of which are mine.
Good luck and don't take it hard.
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#15Could someone post their rejection letter? Didn't apply, but I'm curious what it said given some of the responses here.
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#16Rejected (No idea category)
I ran our application past several YC alumni who gave it a thumbs up, and some of them even +1'd it behind the scenes. I thought our application was quite impressive. Even that wasn't enough to get an interview.
Good luck to those of whom have been invited for interview, and of course those whose haven't! :)
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#17Could someone post their rejection letter? Didn't apply, but I'm curious what it said given some of the responses here.
We're sorry to say we couldn't accept your proposal for funding.
Please don't take it personally. The applications we receive get
better every funding cycle, and since there's a limit on the number
of startups we can interview in person, we had to turn away a lot
of genuinely promising groups.
http://ycombinator.com/whynot.html
Another reason you shouldn't take this personally is that we know we make lots of mistakes. It's alarming how often the last group to make it over the threshold for interviews ends up being one that we fund. That means there are surely other good groups that fall just below the threshold and that we miss even interviewing.
We're trying to get better at this, but the hard limit on the number of interviews means it's practically certain that groups we rejected will go on to create successful startups. If you do, we'd appreciate it if you'd send us an email telling us about it; we want to learn from our mistakes.
Y Combinator Team
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#18Not accepted. Our video got 15 views, does that mean anything? Heh.
Rejection letter:
"We're sorry to say we couldn't accept your proposal for funding. Please don't take it personally. The applications we receive get better every funding cycle, and since there's a limit on the number of startups we can interview in person, we had to turn away a lot of genuinely promising groups.
http://ycombinator.com/whynot.html
Another reason you shouldn't take this personally is that we know we make lots of mistakes. It's alarming how often the last group to make it over the threshold for interviews ends up being one that we fund. That means there are surely other good groups that fall just below the threshold and that we miss even interviewing.
We're trying to get better at this, but the hard limit on the number of interviews means it's practically certain that groups we rejected will go on to create successful startups. If you do, we'd appreciate it if you'd send us an email telling us about it; we want to learn from our mistakes."
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#19Rejection. They not even watch our demo and video. Interesting.
From what they explained that means that the application itself didn't motivate them to open the demo/video.
Sorry to hear.
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#20We got rejected :). We didn't build our startup for YC, though. In fact the YC application was just a super great opportunity for us to have a 'checkpoint' at our startup. So, I think this was great. Good luck to everybody else! Check out http://eatfindr.com/ if you'd like to find out more about what we applied with. ShowHN coming soon. :)