YC W15 invites will be sent out today • Hacker News Board

Re: YC W15 invites will be sent out today

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Post by gholevas » Wed, Oct 29, 2014, 3:49 PM UTC

mamoriamohit wrote: post #68

aliakhtar wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I closed the tab when the demo asked for a name / email. Why should I give my name / email before I know whether or not I want to use something? Nice design, though.

Oh, we didn't think it that way. But we need your name to show the personalisation capabilities and email to demonstrate you the off-site engagement. I know everyone says it, but we truly mean it when we say that we will not spam you. It is the need of demo that it requires some information to personalise the demo your way. Anyways, thanks for the feedback. We will definitely brainstorm something around it this week.

I agree in that I would rather not give my name and email before even starting the demo. I did take the demo though by quickly putting in fake information. I'd suggest to allow the user to go through the first step or two in the demo first, and then ask for the name and email as part of the demo to demonstrate the personalization capabilities.

Re: YC W15 invites will be sent out today

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Post by bradmurmz » Wed, Oct 29, 2014, 5:47 PM UTC

marketmaker wrote: post #141

bradmurmz wrote: post #101

https://cryptrader.com CryptoCurrency Trading Platform... Guess they aren't really as interested in Bitcoin start-ups as much as they said they were. This site is one of the top charting and trading sites in the game :/

If it's any consolation, I like your site. Crypto-finance aside, I've only seen one financial technology company advertise for jobs on YC. On the surface, it just looks like YC doesn't have that much of a FinTech presence. (Outside of payments, anyway.) Since they had that "RFS" for financial services, I'm curious to see what they present from this space on demo day.

Thank you... appreciated. Will be curious to see as well.

Re: YC W15 invites will be sent out today

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Post by mamoriamohit » Thu, Oct 30, 2014, 11:36 AM UTC

gholevas wrote: post #161

mamoriamohit wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, we didn't think it that way. But we need your name to show the personalisation capabilities and email to demonstrate you the off-site engagement. I know everyone says it, but we truly mean it when we say that we will not spam you. It is the need of demo that it requires some information to personalise the demo your way. Anyways, thanks for the feedback. We will definitely brainstorm something around it this week.

I agree in that I would rather not give my name and email before even starting the demo. I did take the demo though by quickly putting in fake information. I'd suggest to allow the user to go through the first step or two in the demo first, and then ask for the name and email as part of the demo to demonstrate the personalization capabilities.

This is exactly what we are doing now. Thanks for the feedback though. In case you liked the demo and would like to share the real info about yourself, feel free to mail me about it. hello at horntell dot com. :)