We did try to get into YC a couple of years ago and made it to the interview. From the rejection email: "However we struggled to convince ourselves that enough

We did try to get into YC a couple of years ago and made it to the interview. From the rejection email: "However we struggled to convince ourselves that enough people would find this useful enough to switch from Gmail and to pay for an email client." In the end, getting venture capital always seemed so time-consuming that we never contemplated the idea of doing it seriously apart from YC.