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Responses for Summer 2010 Applications Delayed
- rickyyean 17y agoPlease get well soon, Paul. Thanks for the hard work.
- dtran 17y agoFeel better! Very impressed with the short timeframe in which you guys turn around the huge number of applications! Someone should tell this site to update: http://omghowmuchtimeleftforycdecision.icodedhere.com/ http://omghowmuchtimeleftforycdecision.icodedhere.com/
- matrixownsyou 17y agoupdated.
- dtran 17y agoThat was quick =) The throbbing of the clock is a little too much for me... oh the anticipation.
- matrixownsyou 17y agoyeah i kind of noticed the post in a glance and updated the site, it's not like OMG i have been staring at the counter all day ...
- follower 17y agoDon't you mean _Sunday_, March 14? :D
- matrixownsyou 17y agook, i'll do it properly :)
- matrixownsyou 17y agohttp://www.omghowmuchtimeleftforycdecision.com/ http://www.omghowmuchtimeleftforycdecision.com/ now with social features
- dtran 17y agoYou didn't take DST into account. The world is going to end =P Nice touch with the twitter hashtag - might be the longest one ever.
- matrixownsyou 17y agonow with a domain http://www.OMGHowMuchTimeLeftForYCDecision.com http://www.OMGHowMuchTimeLeftForYCDecision.com
- dtran 17y agobest domain ever. Can we buy madagascar domains? www.o.mg
- nitrogen 17y agoThanks for keeping the community apprised of the delay, though I'm sure the anticipation is almost more than some of us can take ;).
- atiw 17y agoYeah. Get well soon, Paul. What's one more day when we have waited all this time (all our adult lives? ). Appreciate the effort you guys put into making this whole thing work.
- coryl 17y agoNooooooooooooooooooo! Oh well, still got the Pacquiao / Clottey fight tonight. Get well soon!
- kyro 17y agohttp://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/ http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/ seems appropriate.
- jayphelps 17y agoSo very appropriate.
- jasonlbaptiste 17y agopress it rapidly. it's kind of fun. a CCCCCOMBO BREAKER button would be fairly appropriate too.
- jacoblyles 17y agoPac is awesome. It's inspiring to see someone so good at what he does.
- chrischen 17y agoI suppose it's still too late to send you new info about the application?
- eirene 17y agoGlad to hear you're feeling better. Thanks for the heads up!
- DanielBMarkham 17y agoWe all know the real reason -- this session's applicants were all so super awesome that it's simply been impossible for Paul and the rest to narrow the crowd down. It's okay. We understand.
- pg 17y agoIt is in fact such a good batch of applications that we are having trouble narrowing it down. But even so we would have by now if I hadn't been out for 3 days.
- patio11 17y agoCongratulations to both you guys and the applicants. Being overwhelmed with quality is certainly great for YC, and it is good news for the founders, too: if they're knocking your socks off with an application/video then they're probably going places even if they don't quite make the cutoff for this particular opportunity.
- lachyg 17y agoActually sorta happy, as I noticed a few grammatical errors!
- kloncks 17y agoA tad bit more anxious now. Thankfully, however, this quarter's Finals are thoroughly distracting me. Hope you get better pg!
- davidmurphy 17y agoOooh oooh! Approve my startup -- I'm marketing a cure for the common cold! (j/k -- wish I did have a Star Trek-esq cure-all, though. Feel better!)
- benologist 17y agoIt'd be really nice if you could respond to some of the definite rejections at this point, I imagine you've figured out a lot of guys who aren't getting in. I'm hopeful but not delusional about my chances, and I'm supposed to be on a plane leaving SF tomorrow night - I didn't time it for the YC stuff it just was a convenient coincidence since FGS and GDC were last week and my last meetings were yesterday.
- p6 17y agoSorry but your application was rejected. The reason is there is no reason. Just keep reading HN. Cheers, p6
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- jarsj 17y agoIt would be great to have some feedback (unpolished notes) along with a rejection. That would make it worthwhile.
- rms 17y agohttp://ycombinator.com/whynot.html http://ycombinator.com/whynot.html
- pg 17y agoHmm, I should change the numbers; we've expanded to 4 days of interviews, so now we may be able to interview around 80 groups.
- nlabs 17y agoWow, thats a significant increase. Happy to hear that.
- stener 17y agothis implies that quite many applications would get interviewed/ founded if there wasn't so many of the good ones. And I think these applications deserve to be told so and the rest to be told the reason why they are not promising. Because they will learn more than from silence and it could be said in one sentence, couldn't it?
- rms 17y agoYes, it would be nice to get feedback, but a lot of people would find a tweet-length rejection insulting. YC doesn't have enough time to make their application process perfect, but it seems to get better every cycle. If you want some feedback to go with your rejection, I think NYC Angels will do it for $150. They probably just tell most people to come back when they are profitable.
- stener 17y agoSo I have this site, where I ask users/customers for input and after I evaluate it, I don't reply to the no winners because I don't have time; I get like 300 responses. Hmmm doesn't sounds like the right approach for any business. Yes, it is "standard" industry behavior, but IMHO not the right one. I could change the qualifying criteria to get fewer and more qaulity inputs that I have more time for etc.
- nikkob 17y agoThanks for the heads up Paul!
- raingrove 17y agoI am keeping my fingers crossed!