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Re: Tell HN: YC W16 rejection emails are out

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Post by GFischer »

vigneshrams wrote: post #41

Where to find the complete list of YC W16 rejected companies ? I am excited to see what problem each of them solve.

There are probably close to ten thousand companies / projects !!!

A very few posted here. Mine is not even ready for sharing to HN (for one thing, it's not in English, the app is not published, etc.), but it's a "Telepresence" app (basically videostreaming + interaction, like Periscope only better :) ), which I hope to market to businesses - I think e-commerce is stuck on the "images" phase, why not realtime video?.

Re: Tell HN: YC W16 rejection emails are out

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Post by jjzolper2 »

Donmario wrote: post #49
matteob wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same here :(

I filled out the contact form and wait for a reply. http://www.ycombinator.com/contact/

I got a reply back. They said for some reason the email bounced. Here is the response:

Hi JJ,

Sorry for the trouble! Looks like we were bounced by your mail server:

    550 5.5.0 Mail Denied, contact your postmaster
Do you have an alternate address we can use?

I supplied another one so we will see if I get something on that one now.

Re: Tell HN: YC W16 rejection emails are out

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Post by elainelu »

GFischer wrote: post #47
elainelu wrote: post #38

Got rejected. Very much hope to find out why as we have got seed round, two co-founders from top tier tech/startup companies, an efficient and well-collaborate team, and have a Beta product running. So, I guess it's the business idea issue? It's probably a competitive market but we are confident to make difference and our initial campaign showed encouraging result. With all above, we still didn't get a chance for int…

Can you share a link? Is it http://www.visbit.co/ ? If it is, it looks very nice. Even if you have a good product, maybe it's not outstanding - I'm not sure how many people applied, but it's probably even more than the 10.000 they received last year, so you have to REALLY stand out. Who knows, maybe you were in 200th place out of 10.000 and you barely missed the cut. The good thing is, the market doesn't care :) it d…

Thank you so much for your thoughtful feedbacks and encouragement! Yes, I am definitely not discouraged. I just feel I was warned about the issues we have and mistakes we probably are making. We know our competition landscape and know the overall idea might not be fancy and fresh to people. But we still believe people need it and will need it more along the time. That's why we work on this now.

Yes, it is about photo management, photo content discovery, and instant sharing. Kind of all-in-one solution (not sure if that's bad?). I personally have 5000+ photos in my phone and completely lose track. I might have shared 5%-10% of them, but I can't delete the rest as I don't have time to select, and also don't use them anymore. We want to make these buried treasures useful to people.

Sorry, I am international. Will be more careful on the copy.

Re: Tell HN: YC W16 rejection emails are out

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Post by MCProMatt »

rachellaw wrote: post #57
feedbackw16 wrote: post #33

The 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.

As much as I don't think he's going about this the right way, I'd say there's actually value in getting insight from an outsider that hasn't done anything noteworthy. It gives you a new perspective.

It's easy to get trapped in simple assumptions, and often it takes someone completely removed from the startup world to shape those assumptions into something that has market fit.

You can get the same insight for much less than $40, but some of the best advice I've received has been from people completely disconnected from both my platform, and the startup scene in general.

Re: Tell HN: YC W16 rejection emails are out

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Post by oucil »

oucil wrote: post #76
weingartner wrote: post #75

Is there anyone else still without an answer?

I'm still without an answer, put a request in via the contact form, and also sent to apps@ycombinator.com with an alternative contact email and still nothing at either :( Kind of a piss off at this point.

And..... denied. Doh. See you in the S16 applicant thread ;)

Re: Tell HN: YC W16 rejection emails are out

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Post by weingartner »

oucil wrote: post #77
oucil wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm still without an answer, put a request in via the contact form, and also sent to apps@ycombinator.com with an alternative contact email and still nothing at either :( Kind of a piss off at this point.

And..... denied. Doh. See you in the S16 applicant thread ;)

That is nice that you received your letter. I have not heard anything yet. Did they tell you your position?
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