YC Rejection Emails Are Out • Hacker News Board

Re: YC Rejection Emails Are Out

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Post by accountoftheday » Fri, Nov 16, 2012, 4:11 PM UTC

eduardordm wrote: post #107

hashmij wrote: post #105

The last two days have been an emotionally draining rollercoaster. On Nov. 13th, I checked my email about 10,000 times. This increased the anticipation, but after not hearing anything the whole day, I figured I got rejected and I was OK with it at that time. After all, I had anticipated this as the most likely outcome. Then, I found out on HN that the interview notification got delayed by two days. This was followed…

I feel the same way as you. I won't be applying anymore: this was the first time I applied to an incubator. I built a startup before (that succeeded) and we got a lot of rejections, but thing is they were pretty much immediate. They didn't feel so bad, no anticipation was built, there were similar opportunities to try. YC is unique, it gets emotional and the anticipation drains the very energy you need to succeed. Go…

The emotional drain came as a bit of a surprise to me, and I am not even invested much in this forum or the idea of making a career via YC. I too have built and exited startups previously (without the warm embrace of an incubator) and some rejections from dealing with investors do happen due to the nature of the game but I cannot remember it ever having felt hostile in the way submitting to a black hole and receiving an automated form letter response from it does.

Re: YC Rejection Emails Are Out

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Post by jamesperet » Fri, Nov 16, 2012, 5:45 PM UTC

stilldetermined wrote: post #21

Curious how many other people got questions from the partners, website logins, video views, and then got rejected. I didn't put much effort into my app, thinking it unlikely that they'd accept me, but darn it, they did get my hopes up a bit :-)

50 video views and 0 questions. Got rejected.

Re: YC Rejection Emails Are Out

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Post by ohashi » Sat, Nov 17, 2012, 12:45 PM UTC

hashmij wrote: post #109

eduardordm wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel the same way as you. I won't be applying anymore: this was the first time I applied to an incubator. I built a startup before (that succeeded) and we got a lot of rejections, but thing is they were pretty much immediate. They didn't feel so bad, no anticipation was built, there were similar opportunities to try. YC is unique, it gets emotional and the anticipation drains the very energy you need to succeed. Go…

Thanks for your comment. Yeah, it really really sucked the wind out of me. It's not going to stop us from going forth, but it is a momentary pause to catch our breath and get back up from the floor.

You get used to it. The first time I can empathize. I've been rejected 3 times now, I hardly noticed this time and forgot about it until I saw something on HN. You stop pinning any sort of hope on getting accepted and keep building/marketing/promoting/improving and life goes on :)

Re: YC Rejection Emails Are Out

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Post by ohashi » Sat, Nov 17, 2012, 12:47 PM UTC

freework wrote: post #64

I got my rejection letter. My project is already built, and has 3000 users. I'm a solo developer, so thats probably why I was rejected. Also I'm 29 years old (started developing at 25). I'm the anti-YC demographic, so I wasn't really expecting to get accepted. The only think that kept me thinking I had a chance was the fact that the application process was actually pretty easy in my opinion. All the loggers out there…

I can't help but point out, it's grammar not grammer. It's hard being a solo dev though, it's very possible though and it sounds like you're on a great track with 3k users :)