Tell HN: YC rejection emails have started going out • Hacker News Board

Re: Tell HN: YC rejection emails have started going out

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Post by Aqueous » Wed, Apr 17, 2013, 1:41 AM UTC

zalzane wrote: post #12

clicks wrote: post #5

I just want to say that e-mail looks very well-written and comforting for a rejection e-mail. I wish companies sent similar rejection e-mails to job applicants. Keep your spirits up, rejectees, this is not the end of the world. Continue doing your thing. :)

I wish girls would do the same thing. Imagine how nice the world would be if everyone wrote their rejections this way!

"It's not that you're particularly bad."

Re: Tell HN: YC rejection emails have started going out

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Post by clittle » Wed, Apr 17, 2013, 1:41 AM UTC

pysyfyc wrote: post #10

is there anyone who hasn't received anything?

Nothing here yet. We applied a week late. Anyone else apply late with no email yet?

Re: Tell HN: YC rejection emails have started going out

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Post by garydarna » Wed, Apr 17, 2013, 1:42 AM UTC

sfrechtling wrote: post #7

Just curiously - how many video views did everybody get? We had 5 views for a total of ~4 minutes.

We had 10.

Re: Tell HN: YC rejection emails have started going out

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Post by smoyer » Wed, Apr 17, 2013, 1:43 AM UTC

zalzane wrote: post #12

clicks wrote: post #5

I just want to say that e-mail looks very well-written and comforting for a rejection e-mail. I wish companies sent similar rejection e-mails to job applicants. Keep your spirits up, rejectees, this is not the end of the world. Continue doing your thing. :)

I wish girls would do the same thing. Imagine how nice the world would be if everyone wrote their rejections this way!

Scariest thing I ever did was ask my wife out for our first date. And I used to be an adrenaline junkie!

Re: Tell HN: YC rejection emails have started going out

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Post by timhargis » Wed, Apr 17, 2013, 1:45 AM UTC

basch wrote: post #9

sfrechtling wrote: post #7

Just curiously - how many video views did everybody get? We had 5 views for a total of ~4 minutes.

1 view, 30 seconds. They didn't even get to the actual proposal.

We had like 15 from 5 different cities with 4 of 5 in SV and Boston including a SV view this morning. All views were for the full 2 minute video. Maybe we were on the cut-line, not sure. The competition is stiff...congrats to the people that got interviews.

We didn't have a prototype at all and I think even with a really strong team, it certainly has to hurt the chances.

Re: Tell HN: YC rejection emails have started going out

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Post by ericabiz » Wed, Apr 17, 2013, 1:46 AM UTC

roryreiff wrote: post #6

We received our second YC rejection for Splash ( http://splash.io ). Back to work indeed!

FYI, your website is completely broken on my Nexus 7 tablet. It appears to be some sort of fixed-width design that goes off the left side of my screen.

Re: Tell HN: YC rejection emails have started going out

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Post by Hitchhiker » Wed, Apr 17, 2013, 1:49 AM UTC

Well what is really weird is that yC's top hits as per an annotation on Harj's recent mock letter on Rapgenius got looked over:

" We missed Dropbox, Heroku and Airbnb. " [1]

If the 3 supposed hits that presently created most of yC's entire known value got passed over by the VCs at first go.. one has to be a bit skeptical about the whole idol contest.

[1] - http://rapgenius.com/Harj-taggar-well-be-circling-back-lyric...

Re: Tell HN: YC rejection emails have started going out

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Apr 17, 2013, 1:52 AM UTC

basch wrote: post #9

sfrechtling wrote: post #7

Just curiously - how many video views did everybody get? We had 5 views for a total of ~4 minutes.

1 view, 30 seconds. They didn't even get to the actual proposal.

[deleted]

Re: Tell HN: YC rejection emails have started going out

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Post by frankdenbow » Wed, Apr 17, 2013, 1:57 AM UTC

garydarna wrote: post #29

frankdenbow wrote: post #4

Just got it too for Swagmate ( http://swagmate.startupthreads.com ). Would love to find out about the other projects you all are working on!

Cool idea, I've always wanted some shirts from my favorite startups.

Good to hear, we've been shipping shirts from various startups for the past year in the subscription on the main site. Now doing more to help companies ship swag out. Whats your email? Would love to get your feedback.

Re: Tell HN: YC rejection emails have started going out

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Post by DanielRibeiro » Wed, Apr 17, 2013, 1:59 AM UTC

I'm just hoping to give a few people some perpective on such rejections:

- Damien Katz (creator of CouchDB) was also rejected[1]. He went on and got $2 million from Redpoint Ventures [2]

- On this video[3], Jessica Livingston interviews Drew. It shows that he was also rejected the first time he tried out YC.

- The oscar of rejected but finally accepted: I got into YC after applying six times [4]

- Peteris Krumins also got rejected with his browserling idea, got rejected[5], and went on to raise his own seed funding[6].

[1] http://damienkatz.net/2006/11/how_not_to_pitc.html

[2] http://damienkatz.net/2009/12/relaxed_inc.html

[3] http://blog.ycombinator.com/dropbox-interview-now-online

[4] http://iamwil.posterous.com/i-got-into-yc-after-applying-six...

[5] http://www.catonmat.net/blog/launching-browserling/

[6] http://www.catonmat.net/blog/how-i-raised-money-for-browserl...