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I'll counter with my own request: Please do write a motivational or demotivational post about how you didn't get into YC. I think every cycle it's useful to he
by thorax 17y ago
I'll counter with my own request:
Please do write a motivational or demotivational post about how you didn't get into YC. I think every cycle it's useful to hear people's impressions, thoughts, and experiences and feel a sense that it's not just you who runs into brick walls sometimes.
I think it's a great thing to see how encouraging the community is in these cases--- your post might just inspire someone else to go after their life dreams even without help from the "establishment".
- derefr 17y agoIt'd be easier and less annoying if there were fewer of them at a time on the front page, though. What if YC required a postmortem written interview/reflection (got in or not) and then stickied the term's index page of them on HN when it came out? Less, but at the same time more.
- Tichy 17y agoPractice a little bit of patience? Most things drop off the HN front page soon enough. At least those stories will be about startups. There have been worse trends on HN before.
- eagleal 17y agoI have already read a lot of people (who were accepted) sharing their experienced, but never those who weren't. I think mistakes are a more valuable thing (obviously carefully explained).