I was accepted for an interview and then funding last summer, but decided not to take it for various reasons. I wrote my advice to someone here on Hacker News,

I was accepted for an interview and then funding last summer, but decided not to take it for various reasons. I wrote my advice to someone here on Hacker News, as you did, then expanded on it in a blog post: http://www.jperla.com/blog/2008/07/20/ycombinator-application-guide/ http://www.jperla.com/blog/2008/07/20/ycombinator-applicatio...