YC W15 emails are out • Hacker News Board

Re: YC W15 emails are out

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Post by jtfairbank » Wed, Oct 29, 2014, 1:49 AM UTC

onuryavuz wrote: post #34

dmvaldman wrote: post #13

If you got rejected, mind sharing what you're working on? Reply below!

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Re: YC W15 emails are out

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Post by michaelchisari » Wed, Oct 29, 2014, 1:53 AM UTC

yousifa wrote: post #48

yuprejected wrote: post #22

Can you share how many applications there were for this batch? Might make some of us feel like all these years grinding on startups isn't for nothing and is just a simple matter of volume.

They had said they were expecting close to 5k

They said they were averaging 3 applications a minute on the last day, so that's around ~4300 applications right there.

Re: YC W15 emails are out

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Post by christiansmith » Wed, Oct 29, 2014, 1:53 AM UTC

dmvaldman wrote: post #13

If you got rejected, mind sharing what you're working on? Reply below!

Working on an IDaaS platform partly based on this open source work:

https://github.com/christiansmith/anvil-connect

Anyone interested in trying this out or collaborating, please get in touch using the email in my profile!

Re: YC W15 emails are out

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Post by bozoUser » Wed, Oct 29, 2014, 1:54 AM UTC

Dint make it. But appreciate feedback on www.snapkaro.com

Re: YC W15 emails are out

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Post by smeyer » Wed, Oct 29, 2014, 1:54 AM UTC

tjculbertson wrote: post #57

pptr1 wrote: post #21

I think the mindset to have here is that YC is so popular and the number of YC partners are so small, that you have a very small chance to get in the first place. I wouldn't burn too many candles hoping to get in or trying to figure out a reason why you did not. There is a benefit to applying in that it makes your commitment to your startup even stronger. Focus on what is important and that is your business. I truly…

This is an interesting point on the timeline for YC in that their apps increased 40%! PG says they now have 3 silos, like 3 mini YC's reviewing. But if you have 1400 alums reviewing apps, by definition you are going to have scoring that is biased against finding black swans, regardless of how many silos you create. As you say, the problem is too many apps and not enough time for a smaller amount of alums to review th…

Why do you think opening other offices is likely in the works? This is a genuine question. Sorry if it's obvious (I don't follow YC too closely), but what would you think has changed since their choice to stop doing YC batches in Cambridge? Just the sheer growth in size?

Re: YC W15 emails are out

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Post by henreman » Wed, Oct 29, 2014, 1:57 AM UTC

kamikazi wrote: post #44

henreman wrote: post #30

Our team got rejected. http://doshh.com We were creating a mobile payment system to be used in Myanmar.

Sounds interesting. Few more details? - email in my profile. And all the best. We got rejected too.

Hi Kamikazi, what project you guys working on? For me, I will still continue with the project but without financial backing it will just be slower.

Re: YC W15 emails are out

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Post by fudged71 » Wed, Oct 29, 2014, 1:58 AM UTC

mhluongo wrote: post #55

mck- wrote: post #50

Here's a curious data point: we were invited for an interview last time, but we didn't get in. We had no paying customers yet. The feedback was that we should get 10 customers and apply again. So we did. But no interview this time :/

Similar situation here. We mitigated their primary concerns from our last interview, but didn't get the interview this time.

PG said ours was too obviously a good idea and our customers would build it themselves. They didn't. We didn't get invited this time either.

Re: YC W15 emails are out

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Post by fudged71 » Wed, Oct 29, 2014, 2:02 AM UTC

dmvaldman wrote: post #13

If you got rejected, mind sharing what you're working on? Reply below!

PrintToPeer, a common operating system for 3D printers connecting them to the web. www.printtopeer.com

We've just opened registrations to the public, and have a bunch of big OEMs embedding this in their next printers.

Re: YC W15 emails are out

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Post by ajju » Wed, Oct 29, 2014, 2:09 AM UTC

tjculbertson wrote: post #57

pptr1 wrote: post #21

I think the mindset to have here is that YC is so popular and the number of YC partners are so small, that you have a very small chance to get in the first place. I wouldn't burn too many candles hoping to get in or trying to figure out a reason why you did not. There is a benefit to applying in that it makes your commitment to your startup even stronger. Focus on what is important and that is your business. I truly…

This is an interesting point on the timeline for YC in that their apps increased 40%! PG says they now have 3 silos, like 3 mini YC's reviewing. But if you have 1400 alums reviewing apps, by definition you are going to have scoring that is biased against finding black swans, regardless of how many silos you create. As you say, the problem is too many apps and not enough time for a smaller amount of alums to review th…

"PG says they now have 3 silos, like 3 mini YC's reviewing."

Can you point me to where PG said this?

"But if you have 1400 alums reviewing apps, by definition you are going to have scoring that is biased against finding black swans, regardless of how many silos you create."

Why do you think the scoring is biased against black swans?

Re: YC W15 emails are out

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Post by ajju » Wed, Oct 29, 2014, 2:17 AM UTC

mck- wrote: post #50

Here's a curious data point: we were invited for an interview last time, but we didn't get in. We had no paying customers yet. The feedback was that we should get 10 customers and apply again. So we did. But no interview this time :/

Hey, you have an interesting product. Curious why you priced it per vehicle. I am a potential user, but the per vehicle pricing makes it incredibly expensive for us to even consider it. What kind of customers do you have right now?