Y Combinator Fellowship 2015 Application Videos • Hacker News Board

Re: Y Combinator Fellowship 2015 Application Videos

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Post by bra-ket » Wed, Jul 29, 2015, 2:01 PM UTC

julien_c wrote: post #34

throwaysa wrote: post #22

Throwaway account here. I saw this on twitter and almost got a heart attack thinking for a second that YC made all the founder videos public.

What would be so bad about it? Founders already committed to other projects? Leakage of "Ideas"?

it's one thing to present to an audience of a few partners and completely different thing to broadcast to the entire world

Re: Y Combinator Fellowship 2015 Application Videos

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Post by chasemiller » Wed, Jul 29, 2015, 2:09 PM UTC

Looks like cool product! I hope to be part of your cohort! ;)

Just a heads up- your signup/login forms are unencrypted.

It's fine for a demo, but if you're going to put it out there like this, you should really throw some SSL on there.

Re: Y Combinator Fellowship 2015 Application Videos

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Post by huhtenberg » Wed, Jul 29, 2015, 2:14 PM UTC

masterkrang wrote: post #6

huhtenberg wrote: post #5

What's up with requiring a Facebook account for upvoting?

So that people don't easily game the system. Would you prefer Twitter or just not logging in at all?

Not logging in. Twitter accounts are dime a dozen, so that doesn't give you anything. You can limit by cookie/IP/browser fingerprint [1] if you'd like. That'd be as good as 3rd party authentication and far less intrusive.

[1] https://github.com/Valve/fingerprintjs

Re: Y Combinator Fellowship 2015 Application Videos

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Post by giarc » Wed, Jul 29, 2015, 2:21 PM UTC

I'm confused - I've watched the top two videos and neither really talk about the product at all. CauseSignals is more of a video resume for the team and doesn't even mention the product. I never really read the instructions but was the video to introduce the team and not the product?

Re: Y Combinator Fellowship 2015 Application Videos

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Post by adapt_and_laugh » Wed, Jul 29, 2015, 2:24 PM UTC

giarc wrote: post #44

I'm confused - I've watched the top two videos and neither really talk about the product at all. CauseSignals is more of a video resume for the team and doesn't even mention the product. I never really read the instructions but was the video to introduce the team and not the product?

Yeah, exactly. This was part of a larger application (the rest of which was very focused on the product) so the video was just meant to be a short (<1 minute) intro.

Re: Y Combinator Fellowship 2015 Application Videos

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Post by ericjang » Wed, Jul 29, 2015, 2:35 PM UTC

As of 10:30 EST, there's no server-side validation, so it's possible to vote multiple times.

I guess this is an allegory of the modern financial system, huh?

Re: Y Combinator Fellowship 2015 Application Videos

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Post by omouse » Wed, Jul 29, 2015, 3:02 PM UTC

Heh, well that's pretty good validation for my idea; another startup is doing it; CauseSignal, hope they do well!

Re: Y Combinator Fellowship 2015 Application Videos

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Post by nfc » Wed, Jul 29, 2015, 3:10 PM UTC

I created an alternative list where you can link your project website rather than your videos since I thought that could be more interesting http://www.topchart.io/lists/ycombinator-fellowship-2015-web...

Re: Y Combinator Fellowship 2015 Application Videos

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Post by nfc » Wed, Jul 29, 2015, 3:14 PM UTC

giarc wrote: post #44

I'm confused - I've watched the top two videos and neither really talk about the product at all. CauseSignals is more of a video resume for the team and doesn't even mention the product. I never really read the instructions but was the video to introduce the team and not the product?

I added a new list for the websites of the projects rather than the videos of the founder http://www.topchart.io/lists/ycombinator-fellowship-2015-web...

Re: Y Combinator Fellowship 2015 Application Videos

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Post by mahringer_a » Wed, Jul 29, 2015, 3:18 PM UTC

ericjang wrote: post #46

As of 10:30 EST, there's no server-side validation, so it's possible to vote multiple times. I guess this is an allegory of the modern financial system, huh?

Agree, great hack guys, but you need to work on your votes. Some votes disappear after refresh, then again I can submit 2-3 votes if clicking quickly...