We are PayGuard and we're building a payments platform that would specialize in long-distance/cross-border transactions. http://stark-river-6968.herokuapp.com/ We do this by combining your normal payments gateway with the global network of an international money transfer company (Western Union) with the twist of "escrow". We got our rejection letter too but we are forging ahead with launching our beta late this May. We believe eCommerce will globalize and payments will be at the forefront to make this happen. We want to create a world where anyone can buy or sell anything anywhere. We would appreciate any candid feedback on our idea....intellectual honesty is the best weapon against self delusion.
Ask HN: Rejected from YC? Who are you?
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Re: Ask HN: Rejected from YC? Who are you?
#82I have not got anything yet be it rejection or acceptance for interview. Checked all my mailboxs (spam & inbox). Is it all over and out? Any one who haven't got anything yet?
We also did not get the reply yet. Don't know what it means, but since we're not rejected yet, it could be good ;)
Patience is a virtue.
Re: Ask HN: Rejected from YC? Who are you?
#833 founders 1 idea. The idea to aggregate notes, textbooks, internships, housing, course/professor ratings, online tutoring, and take a fat dump on them so you don't have to. Check us out at www.coursegain.com
Re: Ask HN: Rejected from YC? Who are you?
#84A realtime collaboration application, check it out at tutor.nodester.com
I don't know why you're on the bottom. I think this is neat! One big problem is that drawing anything details is hard without a tablet. I'm also using Node.JS on Quip. Configuring it on EC2 wasn't that difficult if you've considered it.
Yeah, I've tried EC2, but I had a bad experience with their free tier(they started charging me for an elatic IP even when my instance was off) and their customer support was awful. If we ever need to scale, I think we will host on rackspace. However, currently nodester is an awesome free host. I highly recommend them.
Re: Ask HN: Rejected from YC? Who are you?
#85Rejected.
We build mobile mall app with indoor positioning based on wifi fingerprinting. App allows user to find what he wants inside of mall, and retailers get ability to analyze user's routes and push location aware ads. Think of point inside with better accuracy.
Yc is awesome opportunity but not the only one so rejection is not painful at all.
Re: Ask HN: Rejected from YC? Who are you?
#86I have not got anything yet be it rejection or acceptance for interview. Checked all my mailboxs (spam & inbox). Is it all over and out? Any one who haven't got anything yet?
We also did not get the reply yet. Don't know what it means, but since we're not rejected yet, it could be good ;) Patience is a virtue.
+1 the not yet rejected part
Re: Ask HN: Rejected from YC? Who are you?
#87I'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?
we are two 22 years old guys from Moscow:
1) me, currently one of the first engineers at vc-backed startup. prior that worked in russian space corporation on GLONASS programme. Graduated Moscow Aviation Institute with speciality in navigation systems.
2) my buddy, who co-founded executive photo company mnmf.ru which profitable from day zero. Prior that was responsible for marketing at real-estate company.
We're building mall app with indoor positioning.
Re: Ask HN: Rejected from YC? Who are you?
#88I have not got anything yet be it rejection or acceptance for interview. Checked all my mailboxs (spam & inbox). Is it all over and out? Any one who haven't got anything yet?
We also did not get the reply yet. Don't know what it means, but since we're not rejected yet, it could be good ;) Patience is a virtue.
I just figured out that we got an e-mail, but to a different e-mail account. I have one e-mail address in my HN profile, and I gave a different e-mail in the application.
However, the rejection e-mail was sent to e-mail from HN profile. So, make sure you check that one. It looks like the e-mail address in your application is not used.
Re: Ask HN: Rejected from YC? Who are you?
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
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).
The whole lot more is sometimes the problem. Pricenomics does one thing well. On your site, the main call to action is to post something I've bought. Why would I want to do that? I also couldn't actually figure out how to search for an item (I entered "Macbook Pro" into the filter but didn't find what I was looking for.)
Thank you for your valuable feedback, the search is actually at the top right corner, which I thought is the web convention, but will make it more prominent now. And you are right that the full-text search requires more tweaking.
Re: Ask HN: Rejected from YC? Who are you?
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
We also did not get the reply yet. Don't know what it means, but since we're not rejected yet, it could be good ;) Patience is a virtue.
I just figured out that we got an e-mail, but to a different e-mail account. I have one e-mail address in my HN profile, and I gave a different e-mail in the application. However, the rejection e-mail was sent to e-mail from HN profile. So, make sure you check that one. It looks like the e-mail address in your application is not used.
yes I have checked the one that's shared in the HN profile. But still no email to me.