To Applicants: Has Y Combinator looked at your demo?

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Post by palish » Fri, Apr 06, 2007, 6:42 PM UTC

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Re: To Applicants: Has Y Combinator looked at your demo?

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Post by palish » Fri, Apr 06, 2007, 7:10 PM UTC

I'm also looking for "No"'s as well as "Yes"'s. So if they haven't, please speak up! :)

Re: To Applicants: Has Y Combinator looked at your demo?

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Post by yaacovtp » Fri, Apr 06, 2007, 7:11 PM UTC

Shhhhh, patience is a virtue.

Re: To Applicants: Has Y Combinator looked at your demo?

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Post by juwo » Fri, Apr 06, 2007, 7:35 PM UTC

And how would we know if they have?

Re: To Applicants: Has Y Combinator looked at your demo?

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Post by Goladus » Fri, Apr 06, 2007, 7:39 PM UTC

juwo wrote: post #4

And how would we know if they have?

Check your web server logs (or whatever traffic measurement tool you have) to see if the links you sent have been requested.

Re: To Applicants: Has Y Combinator looked at your demo?

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Post by juwo » Fri, Apr 06, 2007, 7:42 PM UTC

Goladus wrote: post #5

juwo wrote: post #4

And how would we know if they have?

Check your web server logs (or whatever traffic measurement tool you have) to see if the links you sent have been requested.

I have sent my links to several people.

Re: To Applicants: Has Y Combinator looked at your demo?

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Post by nostrademons » Fri, Apr 06, 2007, 7:53 PM UTC

Doesn't look like it, unless they're coming from a home (i.e. not-resolvable-to-hostname) address. Actually, I think all the visits in our logs can be traced back to a cofounder. Which makes sense, as we haven't given out our URL to anyone but yCombinator.

I'd actually be a little disappointed if they had looked at our demo, because it's rather disappointing. We've been doing a bunch of cleanup work so far this Good Friday, and will likely be replacing our mockup layout with an approximation of the real thing over the weekend. So I'd be grateful for a few extra days...

Re: To Applicants: Has Y Combinator looked at your demo?

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Post by nostrademons » Fri, Apr 06, 2007, 7:58 PM UTC

juwo wrote: post #6

Goladus wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Check your web server logs (or whatever traffic measurement tool you have) to see if the links you sent have been requested.

I have sent my links to several people.

Check your hosts and referers for domains that look like yCombinator. You are using a traffic-analysis tool like Webalizer or AWStats, right?

(Even if you aren't, you can still get them by grepping the access log. It's just harder to compile statistics.)

Re: To Applicants: Has Y Combinator looked at your demo?

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Post by mukund » Fri, Apr 06, 2007, 8:01 PM UTC

sheeessshhh its rather bad to check on this one. We have done our best and given links to demo, we need to have patience to wait till the results are out. When u give u r exams you wait for results, not break into prof's room and check on the stack and see if he has corrected u r papers :D...this is real bad habit ;-)

Re: To Applicants: Has Y Combinator looked at your demo?

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Post by palish » Fri, Apr 06, 2007, 8:10 PM UTC

mukund wrote: post #9

sheeessshhh its rather bad to check on this one. We have done our best and given links to demo, we need to have patience to wait till the results are out. When u give u r exams you wait for results, not break into prof's room and check on the stack and see if he has corrected u r papers :D...this is real bad habit ;-)

While it may have been better to wait another few days, the application process is nearly over. I'm trying to determine how much an online demo actually matters in the process.

In the case of Zenter, things they'd previously built helped them get accepted. They didn't actually have an online demo of what they were proposing.