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

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Post by prawn » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 1:45 AM UTC

mirsadm wrote: post #11

We applied with http://www.musicfilmcomedy.com :).

I'd jump to the schedule more quickly lest people think it's just another gig index. I was pretty unimpressed until I got to playing around with selecting acts in the schedule.

I like the "similar to last selected" bit though I wasn't sure if it always worked very quickly.

Also, on a typical screen, it required a bit of scrolling around to see the day plus the "next day" nav. I wonder if you could tighten things up a bit for fairly busy schedules?

Showing promise though. Don't give up.

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

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Post by RuggeroAltair » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 1:49 AM UTC

strlen wrote: post #59

RuggeroAltair wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

2 PhD's of quantitative fields (lots of coding experience) 2 MS's in CS that were already in a startup ( we are all 30-32 yo. (no family/kids yet) but maybe the age? seems like a good team (and a good idea), but oh well...

I recall pg mentioning that he would consider four founders to be too many (although, I am not sure it's a "hard" rule).

pg says in the application page: "The ideal company would have two or three founders. We'll consider those with four or five. We're reluctant to accept one-person companies, though we have funded a couple." so I hope that wasn't the reason why we got discarded. But if it really is a hard rule it'd be a strange rule, any 4 person team would pretend to be a 3 person team and include the "extra person" immediately after getting in...

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

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Post by RuggeroAltair » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 1:49 AM UTC

dannyhaber wrote: post #54

RuggeroAltair wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

2 PhD's of quantitative fields (lots of coding experience) 2 MS's in CS that were already in a startup ( we are all 30-32 yo. (no family/kids yet) but maybe the age? seems like a good team (and a good idea), but oh well...

Just saw this: would like to know more about what you guys are up to, send me an email: dannyjhaber@gmail.com , also you can check out my blog: www.legendarymoves.com

thanks, will do...

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

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Post by hiphophippo » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 1:50 AM UTC

http://viewlo.com/ Crowdfunded internet television and movies. We were super stoked when we came up with the idea a few months back, and even more overjoyed when we learned Ycombinator's focus this round of funding as we fit the criteria exactly. We are comprised of 3 college level engineers and still have a future ahead of us so no big deal. Really thought they we would seal the deal with our alternate ideas like Instagram for video(that doesn't suck) http://i.imgur.com/QbS7o.jpg

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

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Post by pmboyd » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 1:51 AM UTC

mtthgn wrote: post #45

Hey-o. My co-founder and I got rejected. We're making an iOS universal app (we call it Cook) that uses grocery lists and recipes to keep a current record of all the food in your kitchen. With said current record, you can do cool things like reccommend recipes you have all the ingredients for, or tell them to use an ingredient before it spoils :)

You might want to checkout ziplist. Most of the apps in the recipe/grocery space are pretty horrible but that site does a reasonable job, has a solid team as well as Martha Stuart as an investor. Not an immediate competitor to what you're doing but worth being aware of. I applied to YC with something close to what they've built although I wasn't aware of them when I applied.

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

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Post by markng » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 1:54 AM UTC

longcreative wrote: post #6

We're building http://HuntersDB.com - a big-game hunting database with search, data and maps. This process forced me to ask myself the tough questions and for that we are better.

And also forced us to make videos that make us cringe :)

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

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Post by dmvaldman » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 2:00 AM UTC

hiphophippo wrote: post #64

http://viewlo.com/ Crowdfunded internet television and movies. We were super stoked when we came up with the idea a few months back, and even more overjoyed when we learned Ycombinator's focus this round of funding as we fit the criteria exactly. We are comprised of 3 college level engineers and still have a future ahead of us so no big deal. Really thought they we would seal the deal with our alternate ideas like In…

This looks great. I'm also surprised you didn't make it through the first round. Where are you located? Who is your team?

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

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Post by mjg23 » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 2:21 AM UTC

We applied with our app Spotter last fall. We wanted to be the app to find mobile video of places. Sad to be rejected, but we loved what we had so we kept going. We recently added twitter integration and were excited about our upcoming version (much better UI).

http://www.spotterinc.com.

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

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Post by jerryji » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 2:36 AM UTC

prayag wrote: post #39

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.

I think I understand what pricenomics does, which you can find similar information (actually more transparent and detailed) on Bizspeaking -- http://bizspeaking.com/item/c2145006f10a4b06ba71856e49e06e02 , then on top of that, Bizspeaking does a whole lot more. (The site is a bit slow now, there seems to be some Redis issue that I'm trying to resolve).

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

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Post by hiphophippo » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 2:55 AM UTC

dmvaldman wrote: post #67

hiphophippo wrote: post #64

http://viewlo.com/ Crowdfunded internet television and movies. We were super stoked when we came up with the idea a few months back, and even more overjoyed when we learned Ycombinator's focus this round of funding as we fit the criteria exactly. We are comprised of 3 college level engineers and still have a future ahead of us so no big deal. Really thought they we would seal the deal with our alternate ideas like In…

This looks great. I'm also surprised you didn't make it through the first round. Where are you located? Who is your team?

Wow thank you! We are located around the Sacramento area and were looking forward to calling sf our home this summer. We are a team of 3 best friends, two of which are coders, and myself, the designer and somewhat of an inventor. Here's two of our portfolio pages. http://kennygibbs.com/

http://seenazandipour.com/#/about

Thanks for the kind words. Its always nice to hear positive feedback on a project after receiving a letter like ycomb's today.