Karen, I don't have any special insight into pg's mind (having never met him), however when I watched you at Startup School, two things struck me about your ses

Karen, I don't have any special insight into pg's mind (having never met him), however when I watched you at Startup School, two things struck me about your session during Office Hours. The first was pg seemed intrigued by the idea. He was even feeding you additional ideas about where you could take it. It felt a little like you hadn't fully thought through why what he was saying was good or bad. One thing you could have concentrated on would be whether your idea has any kind of network effect and if you really can keep getting people to come back to your site. The barrier to entry for starting something like this is pretty low, so focusing on the community is really important. The second point was that Finbarr didn't do much of the talking. pg is a geek at heart, so I felt like if Finbarr could have talked more about the technology choices, things could have gone better. The choice not to use YouTube to me (despite YouTube being down as I write this) seemed really odd and I think that didn't sit particularly well. Being rejected by YC certainly isn't the end of the world, so stay positive and keep plugging away at it.