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From believing we got the first break we’ve had in years of struggle to being crushed. Will it stop us from keeping going? It shouldn’t but it might be enough of a blow to slow us down and depress our chances. I already told people. I scheduled PTO at work to focus. I was on cloud nine and now in the deep dumps.
I'm so sorry for the completely unnecessary emotional rollercoaster we sent you on. There's really no excuse. Having said that, there's no reason why this should keep you from working on your company. I hope you'll decide to give it a shot anyway.
So much love for everyone who received an "accepted" email in error. Don't let it get you down. I just got rejected with https://dependabot.com despite $6k MRR and 2,000 active users. I'm sure there are lots of other great companies in the same situation - let's keep building great things.
Thank you for that. The worst part though is the part where they say "You got accepted to audit the course" .... doesn't everyone get accepted to audit it?
Would anyone be interested in starting a group for rejected apps? I think we could all use this mishap as a motivational boost.
"the Slacker Start Up school for Start Ups that Can't Read Good and Want to Do Other Stuff Good Too"
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Yeah, I got the same, I'm going to let things settle down over the next few hours and keep coding, I'm wondering if there is another rejection on its way. :)
I see this in a monty python-esque tone: "we are happy to inform you that we are very sorry to inform you of our previous information that you were accepted to starupschool, when that was sadly, an error on the part of our rejection system falsely telling you that you were accepted, so I am here to tell you that sadly, you were not accepted by our rejection system and your rejection has summarily been rejected by our…
http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html
A great quote from the essay:
Startups rarely die in mid keystroke. So keep typing!
Got the same, was pretty upset after also sharing it with the team and with others... Lame. So what exactly is "audit track"?
The audit track has the course materials - all the lectures and other notes. If you follow along, you can keep on the same timeline and learn about startups.
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Pretty certain I incorrectly received the "Ooops, you didn't actually email" Please confirm this bug. My company is basically a unicorn.
"Oh youre a founder huh?" "Yep" "What company?" "We are in stealth-mode, currently" "Ah, what stage are you at, can you share that?" "Yeah, like I said, we are a stealth-mode pre-unicorn startupschool audit track company"
List of achievements:
Startup School Advisor Track for 20 minutes
I'm still confused. I got rejected and then accepted. I'm sure it's a fuck up but I urge YC to send a mail again to shed some clarity to those are seriously affected by this.
Getting "accepted" and then rejected made me finally realize how badly I want to try my hand at creating my product idea and starting a start up. So thanks YC for the bug, see you at YC W19 applications.