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YC W13 Applicants
- hansy 14y agoWhat's this for?
- danielsiders 14y agoIt's an opt-in list of companies that applied to YC for the winter 2013 class and still a work in progress. Edit for the prepositionally focused: It's so HNers and other applicants can check out some of the other companies that applied.
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- yosoyzenitram 14y agoWhy did this get tweeted as "List of YC W13 companies"? You made me jump out of my chair for a bit :(
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- fasteddie31003 14y agoHas anyone received information on their applications yet?
- eduardoejp 14y agoAt least I haven't...
- mck- 14y agoNope. I heard it was later tonight... good luck!
- TheSmoke 14y agojust got the rejection letter.
- state 14y agoNice to see tent in there.
- danielsiders 14y agoThanks!
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- jhuckestein 14y agoWhat is the point of this and who's behind it? (serious question)
- danielsiders 14y agoMostly just curiosity. I'm "behind" it in the sense that I set up the form and posted it to HN.
- keithharing 14y agodo the form's authors want to add a field for 'Accepted?' luck everyone!
- danielsiders 14y agoWe'd love to but I'm not sure how people could update it since there's no login. We really can't do it without compromising the integrity of the data.
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- keithharing 14y agonuts. but thanks.
- Marius_Kraemer 14y agoThey send you a message and you can edit it?
- danielsiders 14y agoif they want to email me from an address listed in their profile (and your hn profile is listed in the spreadsheet) we'll be happy to update it.
- talipucar 14y agoCan you please remove #74 (educatme) already ? Thanks.
- warpspeed 14y agoSeriously, before asking for people's personal info can you give us at least a sentence or two about why you want it?
- corin_ 14y agoIf you're curious about why he, or anyone else, is interested then fair enough - however given he makes it clear that all information submitted is available for anyone to view, I don't think there's any need for him to explain why he wants "personal info", clearly he only wants it if you are happy for it to be public information.
- littlegiantcap 14y agoInfikno looks sweet. I'd totally use that.
- hack_edu 14y agoYC W13: "The X for Y class"
- MatthewRayfield 14y agoIt's a succinct way of describing your product. From http://ycombinator.com/howtoapply.html http://ycombinator.com/howtoapply.html : One good trick for describing a project concisely is to explain it as a variant of something the audience already knows. It's like Wikipedia, but within an organization. It's like an answering service, but for email. It's eBay for jobs. This form of description is wonderfully efficient. Don't worry that it will make your idea seem "derivative." Some of the best ideas in history began by sticking together two existing ideas no one realized could be combined.
- hmexx 14y agohaha... well said!
- magnusgraviti 14y agoNo matter what the message will be I am already working on the project to finish the prototype till the end of the month. I believe YC is an awesome opportunity and even I we'll be rejected the project will be launched. Good luck everyone to get to the ready prototype and go on to the big things from it ;)
- mattmaroon 14y agoI saw one that said "A hyperlocal social photo bookmarking site for mobile" and immediately thought of http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6507690/hardly-working-start-up-guys http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6507690/hardly-working-sta... . Definitely use a less douchey description in your actual YC app. Or at least name your company Devil's Deuce Interactive.
- klochner 14y agoI'm pretty sure you just got trolled - their website is a 404.
- pg 14y agoYes, that one is fake. I had to check though.
- danielsiders 14y agoremoved, thanks
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- rpm4321 14y agoNow there's a Webvan one. I kind of don't get it. It seems like YC is one of the least deserving targets if you're going to mock the Valley hype machine.
- rpm4321 14y agoAnd now it's filling up with garbage data and more shitty attempts at humor. I genuinely had no idea that if you removed the possibility of a down vote there would be that many dicks on HN.
- mattmaroon 14y ago
- delmarc 14y agoHas any other applicant class done this??? Don't get me wrong but if it wasn't done before I dont know if we should do it now...
- james33 14y agoI guess we shouldn't ever do anything that nobody else has done before.
- delmarc 14y agohaha true but I was thinking more in the line that it would back fire on the idea of not blurting out who some of the possible selected groups are... I thought they were supposed to be unknown until Demo Day...
- impendia 14y agoNow I'm curious. What is Cluckbutton?
- mc32 14y agoThat has to be a joke. No one seriously would use the tagline "A social network for chicks." [edit] Looks like people are just having fun. Look at the "ShareBNB" (boxers and briefs one). Even if serious, that's a very limited audience and CL can take care of that audience already. I think many are just decoys.
- ildabu87 14y agoOk we are in, let's see if we can get something out of this all together!
- roryreiff 14y agoWell, added Splash to the list. It was funny to see at least one other company very similar, and that is launched! At least we know we are headed in a good direction. :)
- keithharing 14y agowhat % of interviewed Cos are accepted?
- marquis 14y agoI hope this, or something like it, takes off: http://www.hostmygig.com http://www.hostmygig.com. It's a sad thing to see great unknown bands not be able to fill a tour or find the right venues. Look forward to seeing how they get the word out. Oh and a request? I sign up for the betas of a lot of these out of interest, to see if anything looks like it will take off. I am constantly getting notifications and updates, which is fine, but without mentioning what your service is - don't make me go to your website to remind myself what you do and find out if I want to stay subscribed: please just put a quick paragraph in your email footer.
- Marius_Kraemer 14y agohttp://fitsby.com/ http://fitsby.com/, awesome!
- tagx 14y agoNow who wants to start a fantasy YC W13 pool?
- danielsiders 14y agoIs it too late to apply with that idea?
- ildabu87 14y agoLOL
- hack_edu 14y agoYou could probably get funding for that next round.
- fitandfunction 14y agoToday is a perfect day for spam marketers to reach us. I have read every single email very carefully today.
- saurabhpalan 14y agoMisfit Labs is on the list too! They just launched a successful campaign on Indiegogo and were on TC yesterday.
- danielsiders 14y agoRejections are starting to go out....
- younata 14y agoEh. Didn't get an interview. Whatever. I'll apply for the next cycle.
- eduardoejp 14y agoI feel you, brother. Same story for me...
- delmarc 14y agoLets just keep going... this is only one stop...
- danielsiders 14y agoNeither did we. Keep calm and carry on.
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- ohashi 14y agoI just scored a hat trick of rejections :)
- sharqnetwork 14y agoI applied: Mobile based hacker-to-hacker platform used to infiltrate CIA database with content gathering and storing- market potential: Iran, N. Korea, China, Cuba, Russia...this will redefine the black market. All i need is a little startup cash
- whalesalad 14y agoIt's cool to see the traffic on this bit.ly url. Protip, add a + to any bit.ly url to see stats: https://bitly.com/Sua5z2+ https://bitly.com/Sua5z2+
- srikanthraob 14y agoOoops hard luck for us!!
- ashcairo 14y agoWe didn't get in either this time. But it's always nice having the opportunity to apply to these things. Would love to see more of the application videos (it might be embarrassing to put yourself out there, but I'm sure everyone here's a supportive bunch and just wants to learn). Hang in there.
- mtdev 14y agomobius.io here, we make hardware and were pretty excited when we read http://www.paulgraham.com/hw.html http://www.paulgraham.com/hw.html. Got rejected today and checked the server logs, saw nobody ever logged into our demo site. Is this typical or just means that our application was really, really bad?
- ghshephard 14y agoWell, put another way, it might mean that your application wasn't really, really good. It could have been good, or, in fact, it might have been really good - but, I suspect the YC approach is to start with the very, very good applications. They then try and eliminate some percentage of those through some further due-diligence, bring a smaller group in for interviews, and then finally select a very small percentage of the original group. Because YC hires primarily based on team/commitment/skill/fortitude/enthusiasm and potential, I'm guessing that reviewing the demo is done after there is some belief that the first properties are present. [edit: I checked your site - the first two questions that come to my mind are, "What is the potential for this growing into $10B enterprise" and "What is their unfair competitive advantage in building this interface system? PS - with a bit of work, this would be the start of an awesome Kickstarter. Then you don't have to give any equity away, which, if you really believe in your prospects, should also be attractive)
- mtdev 14y agoThanks for the tips. As for enterprise, we want to eat ni.com's lunch since a lot of threir lower end systems require a computer to operate. We're thinking of doing a kick starter to get 50 to 100 prototypes built and the case design finalized. The hardware is solid and the firmware/server side features are pretty much done. Feel free (anyone else too) to contact me if interested in a demo. We're in Mountain View.
- francesca 14y agoProbably a better strategy. If you take a look at Jessica Livingston's talk from Startup School (http://startupschool.org/2012/livingston/ http://startupschool.org/2012/livingston/) she notes that YC gets nervous about hardware--but nerds (like me) on Kickstarter love it. That's how the pebble watch came to grow successfully. Kickstarter is once of the few places you can find and fund really innovative hardware products. Best of luck
- trefn 14y agox-post from the other thread - relevant if you got a rejection email tonight. Hi everyone - Startups are hard. I hope you'll keep going in the face of adversity. If so, Mixpanel is here to help. Forward a copy of your YC rejection email to free@mixpanel.com and we'll hook you up with our $150/month Startup plan, free forever.
- tylermenezes 14y agoFor companies which got an interview, I'd strongly recommend not listing yourself on this list. Do you really want TechCrunch/etc looking through this list and writing your fundraising articles without your involvement?
- doctorpangloss 14y agoI think what TechCrunch does is unimportant to people who give money to people who receive money. Someone's spreadsheet isn't going to ruin a good idea or a good team.
- tylermenezes 14y agoThere is no reason not to be in control of your press. The last thing you want is a poor or misleading TechCrunch article announcing you. It's not going to ruin anyone, but it's not optimal, and there's no reason to fill it out other than pride.
- doctorpangloss 14y agoWe're trying to get better at this... Such clinical sincerity. I would have preferred a simple no, than something so transparently calculated.
- lgsilver 14y agoIf your company description is, "we're the (insert startup name one) for (insert startup name two)", please please reconsider. There are sooo many cool business ideas that don't involve Facebook, twitter, or (inset startup name three's idea here) ideas.
- ildabu87 14y agoGuideacity hasn't been selected, but we are keeping our work going and see how far we can get. Also if there is someone in New York who can create a website like Airbnb please let me know!
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- talipucar 14y agoDaniel, can you remove my entry from the list? It is #73 (educat.me )
- c0mpute 14y agoWhat inference can one make from a reject? (A) Got 4/5 video views from YC/partners and even as late as November 11th. (B) If there were no video hits at all. Looking for some postmortem but shouldn't stop me from continuing my work. It will help us know which axes to improve up on for the next time. So for example, if we have had video hits and got rejected, does it mean the idea sounded good but they were not convinced with the team? Helps one learn...
- pseut 14y agoShould I be concerned that the person behind the "wingman app" is looking for a co-founder? I don't know whether that's a positive or a negative...
- danielsiders 14y agoThe document is no longer public (about 10% of the companies emailed me asking me to remove them from the list.
- sureshmuppala 14y agoBummer, it brought a good chunk of users & sign-ups while it lasted! Thanks