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Ask PG/YC: Have all YC W14 interview invitations been sent out?
- omnisci 13y agoI'm always surprised how long it takes for someone to post this question :-) the notices tend to go out around 8-10pm est. Good luck everyone!
- srbtyagi 13y ago2 more hours to go! Fingers crossed
- PatrickAdiaheno 13y agoThanks!
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- jbarrec 13y agoGood luck everyone!! :fingers crossed:
- Jamurai 13y agoIs it correct to assume that teams are notified one way or the other?
- srbtyagi 13y agoYap. Atleast that's what it says on YC site.
- soneca 13y agoYes, last batch I got a very nicely written email beginning with "We're sorry to say we couldn't accept your proposal for funding..." about this time.
- PatrickAdiaheno 13y agoHaha. They have not looked at my video, so I have a strong chance to see the same email soon. It is a little bit annoying that they asked for so many things, but then knock you out with your first line. On the other side, thanks to this application, I feel that I am more concise. It is all about staying positive and moving forward regardless what happen. Good Luck everyone! (including me :)
- akbar501 13y agoThe other way to look at the YC application is that it provides a good structure to write down why your business. Regardless of acceptance/rejection, the application is something you can use going forward as a discussion point for your story.
- jpn 13y ago+1
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- mimilee 13y agotweeted from pg, We'll send out invitations to YC interviews close to midnight Pacific, so please don't worry if you hear nothing before then.
- brothe2000 13y agoDefinitely the right way to view it.
- PatrickAdiaheno 13y agoI am already using it to improve my pitch deck ;).
- keithwarren 13y agoBeen hitting refresh on the inbox all day! Curious about other people and their video views, we got about 7 hits on ours after the deadline from California (Youtube analytics wont go any deeper). I doubt they were all from YC as the link was sent to other alums who reviewed our app and it is possible on of them hit it up after the deadline. Anyone else look at their stats?
- anubhav_iim 13y agoDid not send the link to anyone else except YC. We got one view from US the next day (after the deadline). Being from India, we believe that should have been the YC team.
- jpjodoin 13y agoIn our case, we had 1 view from California, but it lasted 22 seconds (our video was 1:37), so it doesn't look too good...
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- soneca 13y agoYC watch from a embedded player, so check the traffic source also to know how many from YC.
- sjtgraham 13y agoAre they embedded views or from the YT view page? I'm not sure whether 7 views from YC is good or bad. If they were all from YC, I'd say that means they might be on the fence about inviting your team to interview. When they're sure either way there is little point in watching the video repeatedly, especially when they have another 50 to get through that day. Good luck to everyone.
- keithwarren 13y ago5 different views from embedded players in California. Oct 24, 27, 29 and twice on the 31st. average view durations are odd though, 1:09 and 1:02 for the 24th and 27th; :23 and :22 for the others. Lots of ways I could analyze this but I choose to view it as positive sign.
- sumit_psp 13y agoGood luck to everyone. Remember regardless of what the response is, YC is only a nitro boost. Everybody is racing to create the future and don't slow down just because you didn't get into YC.
- tonydiv 13y ago5 views from the embeddable YT player for us.
- nchatterji 13y agoGood luck everyone! Either way- our team will be celebrating or drinking our sorrows away tonight at Rye Bar in San Francisco (http://www.ryesf.com/ http://www.ryesf.com/). Feel free to stop by...would love to connect either way! Feel free to reach out nirav(at)requext.com Who knows maybe PG will be cool enough to show up and grab a few drinks too!
- avree 13y agoSFO is an airport; I thought you were going to a bar in the airport!
- nchatterji 13y agoSorry, I meant in the city. The bar is on Geary and Leavenworth.
- imd23 13y agoMy god, this waiting is killing us :D In our case (loovin.com), we've got 7 views to the demo site and 4 views in the video (this are views we know that are from them only, yeah... we check this all day long :)). Good luck everyone!
- PatrickAdiaheno 13y agoAwesome! I hope it works out for you!
- samlavery 13y agoI just heard notices will be sent out 'late this evening'. And I'm assuming that's late this evening, PST. Also we got 4 views. 1 was me, 3 had to be from YC.
- keithwarren 13y agoCurious if you heard this from a first party source?
- samlavery 13y agoYeah, I emailed info@yc
- anamecheverri 13y agoMy video was watched 6 times the day after the deadline. But I sent the link to 2 friends so I am guessing 4 views came from YC. I am going crazy waiting though....
- richardv 13y agoWhy... http://ycombinator.com/whynot.html http://ycombinator.com/whynot.html
- te_chris 13y agoPG just tweeted midnight PST. https://twitter.com/paulg/status/397537535452131329 https://twitter.com/paulg/status/397537535452131329 this is already agony, we're 21hrs ahead of PST here in NZ so technically I've been waiting 2 days now since the 4th was yesterday!
- xdite 13y agodoes anyone get questions from YC during the time?
- anubhav_iim 13y agoPG just posted - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6672578 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6672578
- keithwarren 13y agoDear God that is a long time to be this nervous. I must take this time to add a feature that will forever be code named the 'nervously waiting' feature
- anamecheverri 13y agoi just got my rejection letter :-(
- thriftjunction 13y agoMy 4 yr old has access to my phone and hopefully it was not him who watched me pitch 5 times
- abgupta 13y agoGot that dreaded email. Rejected. Now back to work.