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If you applied to YC this cycle, please put your email in your profile
A significant number of applicants seem to have overlooked this part of the application instructions:
1. Please put your email address in the email field of your profile.
If you applied this cycle, please do that, or we'll have no way to notify you later today.
- kellyreid 16y agoon behalf of everyone in the chat room who is incessantly asking, when should we expect notification (either way). people are consumed by this question and meaningful business/coding discussion has ceased.
- pclark 16y agolast time we got our email 6 hours from now.
- shib71 16y agoIt's not often you get to say something like that outside of science fiction.
- davidcuddeback 16y agoI got a kick out of saying that when I flew back from New Zealand last week. My flight left around 7:00pm New Zealand time and arrived around 1:00pm California time on the same day (crossed the international date line), so I could tell people "my flight left 6 hours from now."
- addoway 16y agoJust have to pull through and get that coding done. The anxiety you are feeling right now is actually adrenaline. Just use it to your advantage to get more done. Nothing changes after we hear back. We still work whether it be with YC or not. Life goes on and so does our companies.
- pg 16y agoProbably before 10 pacific.
- mindsetlabs 16y agohaha, we have to make sure we keep working on the MVP even as we chomp on the nails to see if we get into YC. :)
- MrFlibble 16y agoSee, this is where a fake notification date for the 3rd could be useful. That way when you get notified a day early on the 2nd, you are pleasantly surprised and haven't been dwelling on it all day.
- StavrosK 16y agoYeah but then they'd know the next time. I think it would be better if they had decided by the previous day, so they could send all the emails the morning of the last day and not have people obsess all day long...
- schlichtm 16y agoIn the end you will either get an email or you will not. It doesn't matter when it is sent. You will also either start a company or not. It doesn't matter whether you get accepted or not. Most importantly though - isn't it fantastic to be worried and nervous about this? If you're biting your nails right now it's because you put yourself in this position. You worked hard and spent energy on something you cared about and now you get to be judged. Just keep making yourself nervous and putting yourselves in these situations where you get feedback and can iterate and move forward. This is our crack.
- pg 16y ago10 pm is a fake notification time.
- MrFlibble 16y agoHa! I like the cut of your jib.
- twitter_v2 16y agoHey for those of you in the US no problem, it's 10pm here in London and pg said we might be notified before 10pm pt. Nails I can bite, but sleep now...you joking right!
- dirktheman 16y agoSame here in the Netherlands. It's almost midnight, so it looks like I'm pulling an allnighter again. It's all good though, might as well get some work done!
- twitter_v2 16y agoGood man! Good to hear from people this side of the "fibre link". We could do shifts you know!
- ecargnfx 16y agohey, where is the chatroom? I had lost the link to it
- neurotech1 16y agoI received my rejection notification at 7:27PM Pacific time. I'll work on my startup anyway, and see how I go.
- boredguy8 16y agoI'm curious, if you have a moment PG: how much does not doing something like that peeve you? On the one hand, such detail-oriented mistakes aren't necessarily bad, especially in people who know how to notice when they miss them and it matters. On the other hand, sometimes details can kill you: You show up 15 minutes late when it matters. Does someone not including their e-mail ever push you from "go" to "no go" on an application? Why or why not?
- StavrosK 16y agoI suspect that, by the time they check the profile for an email, they've committed enough to at least try and contact the guy some other way.
- nkassis 16y agoWell they probably have and automated script for rejection letters. Too many applications to do by hand.
- tlb 16y agoI don't think PG or anyone is peeved by it. It's just that if your email isn't in your profile, you won't get notified.
- StavrosK 16y agoWill rejected applicants also receive emails?
- Harj 16y agoyes
- twitter_v2 16y agoPositive thinking dude!
- StavrosK 16y agoDude I'm just worried about all the other guys!
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- twitter_v2 16y agoThat's more like it!J Good Luck anyways!
- StavrosK 16y agoThank you!
- dawie 16y agoI got a very nice rejection email last year. Here it is: We're sorry to say we couldn't accept your proposal for funding.Please don't take it personally. The quality of the applications continues to increase with each cycle, and since there's a limit on the number of interviews we can do, we had to turn away a lot of genuinely promising groups. Another reason you shouldn't take this personally is that we know we make lots of mistakes. It's alarming how often the last group to make it over the threshold for interviews ends up being one that we fund. That means there are surely other good groups that fall just below the threshold and that we miss even interviewing. We're trying to get better at this, but it's practically certain that groups we rejected will go on to create successful startups.If you do, we'd appreciate it if you'd send us an email telling us about it; we want to learn from our mistakes. Y Combinator Staff
- scott_s 16y agoObservation: this is a time sensitive post by the forum's owner/maintainer/main moderator on the original topic of the forum. Yet, he did not need to rely on a "sticky" thread or any other kind of special modifier.
- StavrosK 16y agoWhy have a special modifier when you can just change the amount of upvotes to whatever you want? ;)
- mixmax 16y agoI believe there would inevitably be some blowback stemming from that sort of behaviour...
- StavrosK 16y agoI know, I was just joking...
- levesque 16y agoWhat makes you say that?
- mixmax 16y agoWell, it was kind of tongue-in-cheek, but eventually the truth would come out and users would be outraged - it's simply not worth it. Besides I just don't think PG has the mentality to do something like that :-)
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- blahpro 16y agoClassy.
- prawn 16y agoHe means to include it in your HN profile, not as a reply to the topic. You should be able to do that here if you're logged in: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Seantron http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Seantron
- Seantron 16y agoThanks, sorry, I'm freakin' sick with a crazy head cold. Sigh.
- Swizec 16y agoAll commenters: please stop being nervous, it's rubbing off on me and I'm supposed to get some sleep tonight. Thank you.
- twitter_v2 16y agoahhrr it's contagious!
- deleted 16y ago[deleted]
- citizenkeys 16y agoSo who here applied? And if you applied, what's the link to your application video? We got a very good collection of links to ycombinator application videos going on over here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1862327 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1862327 My application was WikiTorrents.org itself: http://wikitorrents.org/wiki/ycombinator_applicants http://wikitorrents.org/wiki/ycombinator_applicants
- puppetsock 16y ago(def check-usernames (u) (or (nil? u) (and (has-email? (user (car u))) (check-usernames (cdr u))))) or something
- goodlab 16y agoFingers still crossed! Probably sleep with them crossed as well.
- si2 16y agoGood luck to all applicants! --tip-- Lunesta is thought to activate the part of the brain that induces sleep.
- ntoshev 16y agoWhy don't you validate this in software on application time? Just put a big warning on every save and don't allow final submit.
- ploonky 16y agoIf my team and I did not have a email address in the email field yesterday, Nov 2nd, will we not be notified at all to being accepted or not? I updated the email field in the profile to include our email, but not til this morning, Nov 3rd.
- seizeyourfame 16y agoI am in the same boat. Not sure what to make of it. Good, bad, or neither.
- scarlettbuzz 16y agonice i like it very much. thanks