My 4 yr old has access to my phone and hopefully it was not him who watched me pitch 5 times
Ask PG/YC: Have all YC W14 interview invitations been sent out?
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Re: Ask PG/YC: Have all YC W14 interview invitations been sent out?
#52Got that dreaded email. Rejected. Now back to work.
Re: Ask PG/YC: Have all YC W14 interview invitations been sent out?
#53Been 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?
Yes, we got 7 views spread over 5 days that were probably all from YC reviewers (embedded player). They watched an average of just over 1 minute of the video which was just under 2 minutes long. We were not invited to the interview.
There was some very cool discussion at the end of the video and I'm guessing none of them saw it. Elsewhere in this thread is the speculation that high views = application that was on the fence and I guess I take comfort in that.
Anyway, if we were to apply in the future I'd ensure we had a shorter video. On the other hand, we were highly unusual candidates so it's possible we were just a bad match.
Re: Ask PG/YC: Have all YC W14 interview invitations been sent out?
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 curios…
I have been enjoying HackerNews before I even learnt much about YC. I am currently working for Google and I've worked for a YC company before, so I am pretty interested in this space. 700 days is slightly less than 2 years, it really is a very short amount of time in the grand scheme of things.
Also, most people create account on HN for the ability to comment on things, this is a fun site that's popular for way more than just YC related things.