I didn't get a message at all. Should I be worried or happy? Who should I contact about this?
I didn't either but I did send in my application two days late, which might have something to do with it.
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#52Will everybody get a rejection letter?
We have not received our rejection letter yet.
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Great attitude! I was rejected as well and plan to learn from the experience and move on. Ironically I think a company that focuses too much on getting into YC would probably not be viewed as a good candidate by the partners.
I commend the spirit and attitude of your post as well, especially having also gotten a rejection. I am curious though, what exactly did you learn from this experience? I'd love to be able to claim the same, but given absolutely zero feedback from the process, I'm at a loss to do so. I do commend yours and the above's attitude!
Specifically I felt that going through the YC application forced me to think through questions that any other investor/incubator/accelerator (and even some customers) would also have.
Additionally, since the answers I had to those questions didn't pass muster with the partners I can either shrug it off (YC is extremely competitive and even they admit they make mistakes all the time) and take the rejection as additional motivation or I can take their decision as truth and take a closer look at my current business model to see what can/should be tweaked. Either way it can be helpful :)
Of course it would be nice if the rejection emails were more personalized, but I just don't think that's possible with the number of applications they receive.
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#57The Feedback Offer (I'm not affiliated with YC.) I would like to try an experiment if I may. For $40 I will give feedback to any startup that got a YC response email tonight. This applies for startups that got rejected and startups that got invited. This could be feedback on the main idea, the YC application, beta testing your demo or website, help with writing, or anything else that would help. I expect to spend 30…
I think you have to be a successful founder i.e. huge revenue or huge user growth or a VC in order to give expert advice and feedback.
For user testing, the most important metric is not how many people give us feedback but whether it's coming from a credible and relevant source.
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Yeah me either. I have no idea, I thought we would get something.
I've applied twice before (once to YC Fellowship this summer). Made it to the top 300 most recently. Always received an email either way.
Do they tell you the position you were ranked?
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I've applied twice before (once to YC Fellowship this summer). Made it to the top 300 most recently. Always received an email either way.
Do they tell you the position you were ranked?
Only if you are near the top, I think. First time I got no indication of where my application was ranked.
Still no response.