PG just posted - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6672578
Ask PG/YC: Have all YC W14 interview invitations been sent out?
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#42PG just posted - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6672578
Dear God that is a long time to be this nervous. I must take this time to add a feature that will forever be code named the 'nervously waiting' feature
Re: Ask PG/YC: Have all YC W14 interview invitations been sent out?
#43Been hitting refresh on the inbox all day! Curious about other people and their video views, we got about 7 hits on ours after the deadline from California (Youtube analytics wont go any deeper). I doubt they were all from YC as the link was sent to other alums who reviewed our app and it is possible on of them hit it up after the deadline. Anyone else look at their stats?
I didn't realize they were still working on it, saw no E-mail so I deleted the Video without looking at the stats. Oops!
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#44Been hitting refresh on the inbox all day! Curious about other people and their video views, we got about 7 hits on ours after the deadline from California (Youtube analytics wont go any deeper). I doubt they were all from YC as the link was sent to other alums who reviewed our app and it is possible on of them hit it up after the deadline. Anyone else look at their stats?
I had three views from the embedded player, but they were all for about 55 seconds, when our video was about two minutes long... I don't know what this means, but I guess I'll find out soon!
To be fair, the application specifically asked the video to be 1 minute long...
Re: Ask PG/YC: Have all YC W14 interview invitations been sent out?
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had three views from the embedded player, but they were all for about 55 seconds, when our video was about two minutes long... I don't know what this means, but I guess I'll find out soon!
To be fair, the application specifically asked the video to be 1 minute long...
Haha, that is true! So I have a random question: your account was created 700 some odd days ago, which seem like a long time for some one who is currently applying, but if you read hackernews just for the content, I am not sure why you would be on this thread... And I believe one of your older posts said you worked for google... so I guess my question is what is your motivation to be in this thread? Purely for curiosities sake...
Re: Ask PG/YC: Have all YC W14 interview invitations been sent out?
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Haha. They have not looked at my video, so I have a strong chance to see the same email soon. It is a little bit annoying that they asked for so many things, but then knock you out with your first line. On the other side, thanks to this application, I feel that I am more concise. It is all about staying positive and moving forward regardless what happen. Good Luck everyone! (including me :)
The other way to look at the YC application is that it provides a good structure to write down why your business. Regardless of acceptance/rejection, the application is something you can use going forward as a discussion point for your story.
I am already using it to improve my pitch deck ;).
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#47My god, this waiting is killing us :D In our case (loovin.com), we've got 7 views to the demo site and 4 views in the video (this are views we know that are from them only, yeah... we check this all day long :)). Good luck everyone!
Awesome! I hope it works out for you!
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Now I'm really interested in the correlation between video hits and interview invites.
I don't really think there is much to look into, and if there was a relationship it is probably spurious. You don't know the reasons why they are looking at any particular video, nor do you know if they are using auto-play (which might not show on stats). Possibly you can see whether you make it past the alumni filter ( http://www.quora.com/Y-Combinator/Do-all-YC-partners-read-ea... ), but beyond that I am not sure.
Oh I suspect so. But sometimes it's nice to feed your own confirmation biases for a few hours.
Re: Ask PG/YC: Have all YC W14 interview invitations been sent out?
#49Been hitting refresh on the inbox all day! Curious about other people and their video views, we got about 7 hits on ours after the deadline from California (Youtube analytics wont go any deeper). I doubt they were all from YC as the link was sent to other alums who reviewed our app and it is possible on of them hit it up after the deadline. Anyone else look at their stats?
In our case, we had 1 view from California, but it lasted 22 seconds (our video was 1:37), so it doesn't look too good...
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#50i just got my rejection letter :-(