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Re: Ask YC: Did you apply to the Summer YC session?

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Post by xenoterracide »

craig-faber wrote: post #28
xenoterracide wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you shouldn't apply with stupid ideas. One startup article I read said paraphrased. that YOU must believe that your idea is a good one. If you don't believe it then how will you convince others. That being said most stupid ideas are good ones. You sound in somewhat of the same position I am. I'm looking for co-founders but haven't found anyone worth my time. It's a good thing I didn't offer it to the couple I was thi…

I was being facetious about "stupid." I meant that it's really obvious and that it's stupid that no-one else is doing it. I don't think that most stupid ideas are good ones. I do think some good ideas can seem stupid, that is, incredibly obvious, later, after someone's thought of it. Sorry about your friend. That ain't easy.

facetiousness like sarcasm can be hard to see on the net.

well perhaps I phrased the 'most stupid ideas are good ones' wrong. On the other hand it more likely depends on who is calling it stupid. The average person thinks computers are stupid, the funny thing, is they have no idea how right they are. I think myspace is stupid... (not the concept just the implementation). So by that logic stupid is good ;)

thanks.

Re: Ask YC: Did you apply to the Summer YC session?

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Post by PeterOliver »

izaidi wrote: post #23
mikeryan wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

WTF does your site do?

It's a new microblogging/lifestreaming service. Competitor to Tumblr, Pownce, FriendFeed, Jaiku, etc. I thought the existing tools were all deficient in certain crucial ways so I made one I'd actually want to use myself.

Have you thought over if you want to build it into a system with any community aspects? I'm working on something that has very similar base level functions.

Re: Ask YC: Did you apply to the Summer YC session?

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Post by izaidi »

PeterOliver wrote: post #32
izaidi wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a new microblogging/lifestreaming service. Competitor to Tumblr, Pownce, FriendFeed, Jaiku, etc. I thought the existing tools were all deficient in certain crucial ways so I made one I'd actually want to use myself.

Have you thought over if you want to build it into a system with any community aspects? I'm working on something that has very similar base level functions.

I think it has a strong community aspect already -- that's part of the point of it, to draw microblogging into this emerging "campfire" style of social networking. You don't really get a sense of it until you have a real social circle on it, though; currently it's not super easy to add friends or import lots of friends at once, so your crowdspace isn't immediately useful. The global "universe" feed is kind of cool but not everyone wants to talk to strangers. I'm going to work on making it easier to bring in friends.

I'd like to hear more about what you're working on.

Re: Ask YC: Did you apply to the Summer YC session?

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Post by rantfoil »

dlytle wrote: post #26

Got a question for any of the YC participants or partners... in the past, what percentage of YC applicants have gone on to the interview stage? According to the comments there were over 500 applicants, and the end result is around 20 groups.. I'm curious as to what the middle ground tends to look like.

Me and some friends of mine applied for Summer YC too, a few new ideas around online publishing.

Good luck all!

Regarding the number accepted vs interviewed, excerpted from Matt Maroon's awesome post: "[From the interview they] just kept all of the ones they liked last time. I think it was 19 out of 54, but I could wrong there. so you might think you only have roughly a 1 in 3 shot. But if they keep everyone they like, and they like you, then you have a 100% shot. So just go make them like you. Like most investors, they want to."

Full link to the article (great read, recommended) http://mattmaroon.com/?p=247

Re: Ask YC: Did you apply to the Summer YC session?

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Post by izaidi »

rantfoil wrote: post #34
dlytle wrote: post #26

Got a question for any of the YC participants or partners... in the past, what percentage of YC applicants have gone on to the interview stage? According to the comments there were over 500 applicants, and the end result is around 20 groups.. I'm curious as to what the middle ground tends to look like.

Me and some friends of mine applied for Summer YC too, a few new ideas around online publishing. Good luck all! Regarding the number accepted vs interviewed, excerpted from Matt Maroon's awesome post: "[From the interview they] just kept all of the ones they liked last time. I think it was 19 out of 54, but I could wrong there. so you might think you only have roughly a 1 in 3 shot. But if they keep everyone they lik…

Thanks for posting Matt's article, it's great. Good luck tomorrow.

Re: Ask YC: Did you apply to the Summer YC session?

#36

Post by hendler »

Yup. Applied. Good luck everyone! Hope to see you in Cali!

"NewsCup is search ownership and personalization. The niche is between Social Bookmarking and Search, but not a combination of each. Rather, NewsCup fills a human need for automatically organizing, _finding again_, and generating revenue for you from your "search work". Uses innovative, simple interfaces and natural language processing to enhance the quality of user experience."

Re: Ask YC: Did you apply to the Summer YC session?

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Post by smalter »

rantfoil wrote: post #34
dlytle wrote: post #26

Got a question for any of the YC participants or partners... in the past, what percentage of YC applicants have gone on to the interview stage? According to the comments there were over 500 applicants, and the end result is around 20 groups.. I'm curious as to what the middle ground tends to look like.

Me and some friends of mine applied for Summer YC too, a few new ideas around online publishing. Good luck all! Regarding the number accepted vs interviewed, excerpted from Matt Maroon's awesome post: "[From the interview they] just kept all of the ones they liked last time. I think it was 19 out of 54, but I could wrong there. so you might think you only have roughly a 1 in 3 shot. But if they keep everyone they lik…

thanks for the useful post

however, the article with the actual quote in it is http://mattmaroon.com/?p=283

Re: Ask YC: Did you apply to the Summer YC session?

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Post by iamwil »

izaidi wrote: post #33
PeterOliver wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you thought over if you want to build it into a system with any community aspects? I'm working on something that has very similar base level functions.

I think it has a strong community aspect already -- that's part of the point of it, to draw microblogging into this emerging "campfire" style of social networking. You don't really get a sense of it until you have a real social circle on it, though; currently it's not super easy to add friends or import lots of friends at once, so your crowdspace isn't immediately useful. The global "universe" feed is kind of cool bu…

I took a look around, and despite you saying you're more of a designer than coder, it works pretty well for what you have to do.

Less words on front page might help. I was curious about how you were going to have a different style of conversation, but after looking around for a bit, it seems like, as you said, a tumblelog and friend feed.

As an aside, I liked the parens in the menus, as it gives it a different look.

Re: Ask YC: Did you apply to the Summer YC session?

#39

Post by symbiotic »

aykall wrote: post #25

Yes I did and I'm sure I have a great opportunity in my hands but I also have some difficulties to face. I had a co-founder which was the coder and unfortunately he had to drop off the idea because personal reasons. We were working in a online investment social network which I'm pretty sure is great but now I can see some reasons to not be selected. I can do really little coding and I'm a sole founder right now. Let'…

Have you checked out socialpicks.com? Sounds kinda like what your doing. I know about it because I was working on a similar idea that never took off a few years ago. Gotta be aware of the competition :)

Re: Ask YC: Did you apply to the Summer YC session?

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Post by aykall »

symbiotic wrote: post #39
aykall wrote: post #25

Yes I did and I'm sure I have a great opportunity in my hands but I also have some difficulties to face. I had a co-founder which was the coder and unfortunately he had to drop off the idea because personal reasons. We were working in a online investment social network which I'm pretty sure is great but now I can see some reasons to not be selected. I can do really little coding and I'm a sole founder right now. Let'…

Have you checked out socialpicks.com? Sounds kinda like what your doing. I know about it because I was working on a similar idea that never took off a few years ago. Gotta be aware of the competition :)

Yeah, like socialpicks there are many others but my idea is not about stocks. It is another type of investment.
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