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Sorry to hear that. Its surprising, given how many times your video was viewed and usage of your demo, I'd have thought they were interested.

byoung2 12y ago
Well by the math applying and getting accepted is a long shot. If they review thousands of applications (say 5000), and they hope to have a class of 80, then they probably have to interview a few hundred. So if they want to get 500 to 1000 into an interview out of 5000, they're turning away 80 to 90%. I'm just curious to know whether we were number 501 on the list when they accepted 500, or if we were the last one on the list of 5000.
- aliakhtar 12y ago
  Considering you got 8 views on your video, and they went far enough with your demo to make an account, I would say you were probably high on their list. For me, my video was viewed two times, and my protoype was only viewed once, no other action was taken on it. This probably means you got higher than average interaction by them. You might want to reconsider your current idea though - Have you looked into google Inbox? They are coming out with a lot of email improving functionality.
  - byoung2 12y ago
    You might want to reconsider your current idea though - Have you looked into google Inbox? They are coming out with a lot of email improving functionality. I got my invite for Google Inbox today, and it's pretty to look at, but not something I'll use long term. In the end any pretty interface you put on email will suffer from the same flaw - it's built on a protocol that is just blobs of text. Inbox does make it easier to visualize what's in my inbox right now but the search is still just a plain text search. I'm getting a head start on Christmas shopping, so I have a lot of orders being shipped to me. Can I search for all packages that are currently "in transit"? No. Can I search for every Techcrunch article I've sent to my cofounder that mentions YC? No. The reason I can't do these searches in email is because the messages are just blobs of text, when they should be JSON. That's the problem we're trying to solve with MorphMail.

byoung2 12y ago

Well by the math applying and getting accepted is a long shot. If they review thousands of applications (say 5000), and they hope to have a class of 80, then they probably have to interview a few hundred. So if they want to get 500 to 1000 into an interview out of 5000, they're turning away 80 to 90%. I'm just curious to know whether we were number 501 on the list when they accepted 500, or if we were the last one on the list of 5000.

aliakhtar 12y ago
Considering you got 8 views on your video, and they went far enough with your demo to make an account, I would say you were probably high on their list. For me, my video was viewed two times, and my protoype was only viewed once, no other action was taken on it. This probably means you got higher than average interaction by them. You might want to reconsider your current idea though - Have you looked into google Inbox? They are coming out with a lot of email improving functionality.
- byoung2 12y ago
  You might want to reconsider your current idea though - Have you looked into google Inbox? They are coming out with a lot of email improving functionality. I got my invite for Google Inbox today, and it's pretty to look at, but not something I'll use long term. In the end any pretty interface you put on email will suffer from the same flaw - it's built on a protocol that is just blobs of text. Inbox does make it easier to visualize what's in my inbox right now but the search is still just a plain text search. I'm getting a head start on Christmas shopping, so I have a lot of orders being shipped to me. Can I search for all packages that are currently "in transit"? No. Can I search for every Techcrunch article I've sent to my cofounder that mentions YC? No. The reason I can't do these searches in email is because the messages are just blobs of text, when they should be JSON. That's the problem we're trying to solve with MorphMail.