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Ask HN: Are you applying to YC's next round?
Hey guys,
Just interested to know how many people are applying to the next round or have already started?
http://ycombinator.com/w2010.html
- jacquesm 17y agoThis: http://ycombinator.com/howtoapply.html http://ycombinator.com/howtoapply.html suggests about 1,000 applications per round.
- bgnm2000 17y agoYea, I was kind of going for the HNer's though. Not the actual number.
- jacquesm 17y agoInteresting question you've got there, the intersection of the sets of applicants to YC and the users of HN. I'd expect that to be very close to 100%. Not a good idea to apply to a VC that runs a board this well stocked without being a member and scoping out the situation, that would give you a much better chance at success.
- araneae 17y agoI think it's more accurate to say that the set of YC applicants is close to 100% included by HN users, but I suspect that the set of HN users is much larger. Does anyone have an idea of how many HN users there are? I know several users (in person) who have been around for several years, but have never applied to YC.
- jacquesm 17y agoHN gets about 30K visitors / day I believe, and I think that most of those are 'repeat' visitors. There are a significant number of 'lurkers' though, plenty of them have never logged in. A good rule of thumb is 90/10, 10% of your users creates 90% of the content. If HN follows that then there should be about 3K active members logged in and at a minimum voting once every day. You can apply the 90/10 rule recursively, and the leaderboard seems to confirm that.
- envitar 17y agoYeah, will give it a shot...
- matt1 17y agoOn a realted note, any word when startup school will be this year?