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Re: Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder

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Post by bporterfield »

ram1024 wrote: post #48
honeyman wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or is that a challenge of self-sufficiency in an ICFPC style? "Claiming you are a hacker but crying you haven't received a response? Come to our server and get your response yourself !"

okay, we've got 1 spot left but i'm tired of sifting through these entries. let's cagematch the remaining 50 groups and see who's left standing... should have done that from the beginning IMHO. i fight dirty

Ok, but all jokes aside, we're still waiting for an email :(. I might have made a mistake, but I'm pretty sure I triple-checked my email address in the application, and I also have it in my profile. I know my application was submitted, since I received a question from pg himself.

Maybe something went awry with the mail script? I don't want to assume one way or another until I get an actual response...All I know is that productivity is going to suffer today! Is anyone else still waiting?

Perhaps providing responses through the HN profile could be a good fix to this problem and the spam folder issue for future cycles?

Re: Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder

#52

Post by ram1024 »

bporterfield wrote: post #51
ram1024 wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

okay, we've got 1 spot left but i'm tired of sifting through these entries. let's cagematch the remaining 50 groups and see who's left standing... should have done that from the beginning IMHO. i fight dirty

Ok, but all jokes aside, we're still waiting for an email :(. I might have made a mistake, but I'm pretty sure I triple-checked my email address in the application, and I also have it in my profile. I know my application was submitted, since I received a question from pg himself. Maybe something went awry with the mail script? I don't want to assume one way or another until I get an actual response...All I know is th…

my mail is terribly unreliable, but my co-founder got our rejection letter, just now managed to forward it to me :D

wanted to see me sweat, obviously

Re: Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder

#53

Post by [deleted] »

bporterfield wrote: post #51
ram1024 wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

okay, we've got 1 spot left but i'm tired of sifting through these entries. let's cagematch the remaining 50 groups and see who's left standing... should have done that from the beginning IMHO. i fight dirty

Ok, but all jokes aside, we're still waiting for an email :(. I might have made a mistake, but I'm pretty sure I triple-checked my email address in the application, and I also have it in my profile. I know my application was submitted, since I received a question from pg himself. Maybe something went awry with the mail script? I don't want to assume one way or another until I get an actual response...All I know is th…

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Re: Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder

#54

Post by erik »

pg wrote: post #49
bigthboy wrote: post #5

GMail > PG? Fail :P oh well, onward and upward I suppose, can't let something like this knock you down. Like it was said many many times. Everyone who didn't make it, please, by all means, keep moving forward because this is not a death certificate.

Like it was said many many times. Everyone who didn't make it, please, by all means, keep moving forward because this is not a death certificate. This is an important point. I would hate to think that we might be discouraging any of the startups we didn't invite to interviews. It's not just to make people feel better that we talk in the "no" email about how bad we are at judging startups. It's really true. The single…

Can you share any examples of startups that you regret saying no to?

Re: Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder

#55

Post by pg »

erik wrote: post #54
pg wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Like it was said many many times. Everyone who didn't make it, please, by all means, keep moving forward because this is not a death certificate. This is an important point. I would hate to think that we might be discouraging any of the startups we didn't invite to interviews. It's not just to make people feel better that we talk in the "no" email about how bad we are at judging startups. It's really true. The single…

Can you share any examples of startups that you regret saying no to?

I haven't gone looking for specific companies we missed, but there must be some by now considering that we've read thousands of applications and only funded 102 of them.

If startups funded by "YC clones" succeed, those are probably ones we missed, since most people who apply to them apply to us too.

Re: Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder

#56

Post by bporterfield »

ram1024 wrote: post #52
bporterfield wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ok, but all jokes aside, we're still waiting for an email :(. I might have made a mistake, but I'm pretty sure I triple-checked my email address in the application, and I also have it in my profile. I know my application was submitted, since I received a question from pg himself. Maybe something went awry with the mail script? I don't want to assume one way or another until I get an actual response...All I know is th…

my mail is terribly unreliable, but my co-founder got our rejection letter, just now managed to forward it to me :D wanted to see me sweat, obviously

honeyman, is your group still waiting on a response? Am I the only one left that can't find a response email?

Re: Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder

#57

Post by honeyman »

bporterfield wrote: post #56
ram1024 wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

my mail is terribly unreliable, but my co-founder got our rejection letter, just now managed to forward it to me :D wanted to see me sweat, obviously

honeyman, is your group still waiting on a response? Am I the only one left that can't find a response email?

Yep, still waiting. I am slightly worried that something is wrongs with us in general, cause seems that everybody here received a question or two from PG :). We haven't.

Either we were incredibly clear (having sent out the form long before the deadline and tweaked it numerously since then), or they just tired of reading our form, which slightly (but intentionally) breaks the "200 word" request almost everywhere.

Hard to fit into 200 words, when you have almost everything in mind preplanned and thought, from the scalability-related technical questions and repayment strategy, up to the image-creating plans...

Re: Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder

#58

Post by honeyman »

ram1024 wrote: post #52
bporterfield wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ok, but all jokes aside, we're still waiting for an email :(. I might have made a mistake, but I'm pretty sure I triple-checked my email address in the application, and I also have it in my profile. I know my application was submitted, since I received a question from pg himself. Maybe something went awry with the mail script? I don't want to assume one way or another until I get an actual response...All I know is th…

my mail is terribly unreliable, but my co-founder got our rejection letter, just now managed to forward it to me :D wanted to see me sweat, obviously

Don't know if I could congratulate you or sympathize... but you definitely are much less strained now, then other remaining poor souls suffering from uncertainty.

Good luck. Maybe we'll meet one day, in Sequioa Capital or somewhere, and share a laugh on good old YC application times ...

Re: Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder

#59

Post by callmeed »

honeyman wrote: post #57
bporterfield wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

honeyman, is your group still waiting on a response? Am I the only one left that can't find a response email?

Yep, still waiting. I am slightly worried that something is wrongs with us in general, cause seems that everybody here received a question or two from PG :). We haven't. Either we were incredibly clear (having sent out the form long before the deadline and tweaked it numerously since then), or they just tired of reading our form, which slightly (but intentionally) breaks the "200 word" request almost everywhere. Hard…

Still nothing here, either ... so don't feel alone.

Re: Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder

#60

Post by ram1024 »

honeyman wrote: post #57
bporterfield wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

honeyman, is your group still waiting on a response? Am I the only one left that can't find a response email?

Yep, still waiting. I am slightly worried that something is wrongs with us in general, cause seems that everybody here received a question or two from PG :). We haven't. Either we were incredibly clear (having sent out the form long before the deadline and tweaked it numerously since then), or they just tired of reading our form, which slightly (but intentionally) breaks the "200 word" request almost everywhere. Hard…

200 words? my application was telling me 120 words...

i was ROBBED

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