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Re: Ask HN: Rejected from YC? Who are you?

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Post by munaf » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 12:30 AM UTC

chrisacky wrote: post #9

We received our rejection letter as well. We are building a centralized platform as a service which allows vacation rental home owners and property agents to launch and create their own marketing website which they can manage from a single location. Property owners can also receive marketing and exposure on any number of sites. (We're placing more emphasis on enterprise rather than the social side that AirBnB went do…

I'd consider shortening that description a bit.

Re: Ask HN: Rejected from YC? Who are you?

#32

Post by Radzell » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 12:30 AM UTC

Social augmented reality to let anyone add video, images, or models to any item they want then share it with others.

Re: Ask HN: Rejected from YC? Who are you?

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Post by dmvaldman » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 12:31 AM UTC

untog wrote: post #26

I'm not sure this is the right question. pg repeats time and time again that the product doesn't matter, the team does. So really, the title ought to be: Ask HN: Rejected from YC? Who are you?

I agree :-)

Previous title was "Ask HN: Rejected from YC? What did you build?"

Re: Ask HN: Rejected from YC? Who are you?

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Post by brackin » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 12:31 AM UTC

Didn't apply but here's my thoughts. I know a number of YC founders and YC rejections. Don't quit, I see too many people not continuing without YC which essentially tells YC that you wouldn't have been a fit as YC is the first hurdle, not the destination. There are many alternatives and funding isn't in short supply.

Saying that, it's very positive to listen to any feedback. If you continue then you have to decide do you apply for an alternative accelerator (Many great ones), bootstrap or try to raise some seed money to get you off the grond. YC is incredible but in some circles overhyped.

It's supposedly as good as people say but many of the alternatives (not referring to accelerators) are as good or proven further.

Re: Ask HN: Rejected from YC? Who are you?

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Post by jerryji » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 12:33 AM UTC

What: Built a social network for shoppers; Who: A solo founder outside US; Rant: I think I've done a job at least on par with another YC11 company http://jerryji.posterous.com/on-yc-demo-day-40956

Re: Ask HN: Rejected from YC? Who are you?

#36

Post by xackpot » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 12:34 AM UTC

felipellrocha wrote: post #29

Also a solo founder building http://comics-headquarters.com/ , a place to publish your comics online. :) I am currently looking for artists who can help either write stories or/and draw. You can contact me using the web form in the site.

Cool, nice project. I am also a solo founder who founded drawmics.com (a social one page comics platform). However, I didn't apply for this project, but the similarity of our projects prompted me to comment.

Re: Ask HN: Rejected from YC? Who are you?

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Post by bobsil1 » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 12:44 AM UTC

Yup, we were rejected. We tell you which model of anything to buy by crunching owner ratings. Would much appreciate any comments on the beta:

http://daring.is

Congrats to YC S12.

Re: Ask HN: Rejected from YC? Who are you?

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Post by xackpot » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 12:44 AM UTC

Well, rejection letter is just a part of the game. Now we will have to learn things on our own instead of having guidance from YC, which is kind of more work on our part. But hey, we love to work and learn, don't we? After creating drawmics.com & findero.us, I started working on a new idea, however, I applied to YC with no idea in particular as I was not sure whether to pursue it or not. In the last few weeks, my gut feeling on the success of this idea has become stronger by the day and I am actively pursuing it with my co-founder (yeah, now I have a co-founder). I hope, by the next demo day at YC, we would have already gone live.

Re: Ask HN: Rejected from YC? Who are you?

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Post by prayag » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 12:46 AM UTC

jerryji wrote: post #35

What: Built a social network for shoppers; Who: A solo founder outside US; Rant: I think I've done a job at least on par with another YC11 company http://jerryji.posterous.com/on-yc-demo-day-40956

I don't know what exactly you are doing but it seems like you don't understand what pricenomics are doing. They tell you how much your stuff is worth if you are trying to sell it. It is not a social shopping site.

Re: Ask HN: Rejected from YC? Who are you?

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Post by donw » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 12:51 AM UTC

wmw wrote: post #14

We are building a realtime digital signage solution mainly powered by nodejs. Maybe we got rejected because we are from germany?

On the application instructions page, the original 'how to make a YC application video' is the pitch video for Directed Edge -- both of whom were out of Berlin.