Whelp, what a mess. Every time I tell my self not to apply to these things but then it's like Godfather 3. But wait, this time it was different!! Oh, wait. Nope. Same result. Only this time it feels much much worse. FUBAR.
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#92I was also accepted and rejected. Very upset and frustrated.
That's completely fair - and we're so sorry that our mistake left you feeling that way.
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#93Accepted.
Told my team.
We celebrated.
Then received apology/rejection.
Honestly, while it would be a low probability of us getting into the YC Batch, we thought we were high probability of getting into online startup school.
We have an active MVP for 2 months, a Fortune 500 enterprise customer, and a solid market opportunity using previously validated use cases.
We thought we were a really good fit for this program.
I’m tempted to email to ask them to check again.
One error could be two?
Sigh.
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#94Guys - we are deeply sorry for this screw-up. I know we got people's hopes up only to let you down, and I feel terrible about it. While it doesn't excuse our mistake, for what it's worth, Startup School makes the classes and all the materials available online to everyone. So even if you didn't get accepted to the advisor track, we hope you will follow along, watch the videos, and find the material useful. My apologie…
Has this thread been manually deleted from the HN front page?
Definitely not. It was being downgraded a bit by software for reasons unrelated to the topic, but I just turned that off.
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#96So much love for everyone who received an "accepted" email in error. Don't let it get you down. I just got rejected with https://dependabot.com despite $6k MRR and 2,000 active users. I'm sure there are lots of other great companies in the same situation - let's keep building great things.
Given the sheer volume of applications, my guess is they rely heavily on your LinkedIn profile to pattern match based on their profile of a successful YC candidate.
So yeah just because you don't look like what they want you to look like (school, history, network, etc), that's no judgement on you. Keep on keeping on.
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#98Startup school's valuable first lesson in customer communication and PR is right here. Well, software screwed up the experience and crushed the expectations of so many, including me. Moving on :)...
You're right - it was a huge lesson for us that we need to have way better protections in place to prevent something like this from happening.
Acknowledge the effort you're taking to correct this snafu.
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#99I'm here because of the same reason -- looks like I'm not alone. I've had a YC advisor for about 1.5 hours, shared good news with people around, and now I'm going to tell everyone it was a fake news. How many people received this email? IMO all the people who got the 1st acceptance e-mail should get in. If not now, then in the next cohort.
I'm willing to bet everyone that applied got the email.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're right - it was extremely not cool. We're very sorry.
Hey, please, in the good name of YC, explain this on twitter. Some people are kinda lost over there. I got an invite as participant and got a reply saying I am not an advisor (but nothing about participating)
Yes - we're replying to all the twitter threads right now.