5 ms·
Ask YC: When can we expect to know our YC application status?
I know it's supposed to be today but the waiting is starting to drive me crazy. Any ideas?
- paul_reiners 19y agoA watched kettle never boils.
- Readmore 19y agoIt's so true. Apparently 'a refreshed inbox never changes' also holds true.
- ericb 19y agoAt least everything works asynchronously now. Waiting for a phone call used to be excruciating, before voicemail. Thankfully, we don't have to worry about someone "tying up the email" while we wait.
- chasingsparks 19y agoWhile a watched kettle never seems to boil, my ruby script that scanned for a pg comment did signal.
- hooande 19y agoYou gotta share that script or give it a web address
- chasingsparks 19y agohooande http://pastie.caboo.se/178157 http://pastie.caboo.se/178157 just replace the to and from number and excuse the lack of any error correcting. go out, get a beer, and wait.
- chasingsparks 19y agooh, i guess i should mention. it sends a SMS to a sprint phone via Sprint's www interface. i do not know (nor do i care) if it works for other cell phones. you can see if it does by setting the starting_count variable to 0.
- pgfake 19y agoSo if I make a user called "pgfake" can I make your script send you text messages? Neat.
- chasingsparks 19y agoWell, actually, if you wanted to generate a false positive, all you had to do was paste the regex text, but why?
- nostrademons 19y agoYou know that you can scan for his replies on any thread by using the http://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments http://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments link, right? Just in case someone starts another "YC e-mails are out!" thread?
- chasingsparks 19y agoI did not know about that feature. Thanks.
- rrival 19y agoI have one of those new fast ones. I watched. It boils.
- nanexcool 19y agoabout that... http://xkcd.com/357/ http://xkcd.com/357/
- deleted 19y ago[deleted]
- xenoterracide 19y agopatience is a virtue and a necessity in our trade.
- ph0rque 19y agoTo make the waiting easier, I assume it's going to be after midnight. That way, insanity is held at bay.
- pg 19y agoLate tonight probably.
- Readmore 19y agoThanks.
- pg 19y agoThe emails are going out now. Thanks for your patience (and please check your spam folders). The applications were really good this time. We invited more groups to interviews than we have in the past, but we still had to turn down a lot that are probably good.
- dcurtis 19y agoHow much do you look at the news.yc username correlation in your decision making?
- pg 19y agoIt's hard to quantify, but it definitely helps when you feel like you know what someone's like from reading their comments. A text application form is such a low-bandwidth source. Reading the applications, we feel like we're just starving for information about what the people are really like. So any additional context helps a lot.
- kryptos 19y agoWould it be possible to specifically mail those who were rejected?I do understand it would be time consuming for you guys, it would be really helpful to all
- pg 19y agoIt would be less helpful than you might think. Strange as it sounds, there's often no answer to the question of why groups are rejected. I tried to explain it here: http://ycombinator.com/whynot.html http://ycombinator.com/whynot.html
- dlytle 19y agoMy recommendation: go out and get a cool drink from some hippy juice bar, relax, and then go to bed before midnight. Read a book or watch a movie instead of checking until tomorrow morning. (I'm not being sarcastic; that's what I'm planning on doing. Blueberry-orange-pineapple smoothie ahoy!) Finding out about the results sooner won't alter them, and the anticipation/worry is almost always worse than the reveal of whatever you're waiting for. If you resolve not to check until tomorrow morning, you'll have a more pleasant night, and be well rested to find out what's up in the morning.
- jkush 19y agoHaha. That's terrible advice! :) How about just checking your email once every few hours or when you feel like it? That seems to be a less extreme reaction.
- dlytle 19y agoMany people who took the application seriously will have been working like crazy the past couple of weeks, and the very serious entrepreneurs have months or years more of it ahead. A "night off" would probably do a lot of good for some of the applicants. Getting a relatively healthy drink, enjoying some leisure time, and going to sleep at a reasonable hour... I can think of much worse advice. :P
- wheels 19y agoOr better yet, just assume you're not getting it, because even if you get invited, you statistically still probably aren't going to be accepted. Keep building your application, chasing up contacts, figuring out the next step and planning on taking over the world with or without YC.
- keating 19y agoA year ago they kept 2 out of 3 invitees IIRC.
- deleted 19y ago
- hendler 19y agoI like National Geographic: pangolins http://youtube.com/watch?v=r2cyp8k8uuM http://youtube.com/watch?v=r2cyp8k8uuM pygmy seahorse http://youtube.com/watch?v=k4q3sBuCkRQ http://youtube.com/watch?v=k4q3sBuCkRQ critter cam, turtles: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q_D51Ui_XMI http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q_D51Ui_XMI These things calm me.
- kuldeep_kap 19y agohaha! Thank You!
- ChrisRicca 19y agohttp://cuteoverload.com http://cuteoverload.com
- hendler 19y agoYeah, exactly. Cute overload. nature does it better.
- deleted 19y ago[deleted]
- mpc 19y agoGo out with your team and eat something tasty or drink a couple of nice beers. There should be an endless amount of things to talk about regarding your startup that don't depend on yc. Come back and check your email around midnight, then decide what your next step will be. (this is exactly what I'm doing)
- ericwan 19y agoThanks for reminding me. I don't even remember that they will give out the interviews today. Take it easy.
- chrysb 19y agoJust put it in the back of your mind and continue executing everything you wrote about in your application.
- mmenchu 19y agoYes, go the Alpha-beta pruning approach. Assume you were rejected and don't wait till too late to find out how screwed you are. Continue working and launch 1 day earlier ;)
- ameilij 19y agoGood luck to everyone! I admit, I joined with little hopes of getting picked, so just the pleasure of learning about start-ups made it worthwhile. Thanks YC!
- ubudesign 19y agoOh was suppose to be today? slipped my mine
- jgill 19y agoI'm curious what part of this sentence says notifications will be sent by April 9th. "We'll review applications by April 9 and invite the groups that seem most promising to meet us in Mountain View on the weekend of April 25-27." I kid, I kid.
- jchor 19y agoDon't forget to check your spam filters just in case! =P. I asked my friend who got accepted and he said that they sent it pretty late and that the email only goes to the leader on the app. Goodluck to everyone!
- rickrodgers 19y agoFWIW our rejection was sent to all founders emails.
- rickrodgers 19y agoShot down in flames a few minutes ago. At least they sent a well crafted email. I would love to see the specific negative feedback as to why they rejected us, but I understand that it would add to their workload. Anyway, for me the best part of the YC process was the exercise of completing the application. It was much less daunting than sitting down to write a business plan. It forced me to codify my plans in broad terms, and that has been very helpful. Now, back to the races.