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by blader • 19 years ago

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blader8• 19 years ago

This is just for fun. Relax.

danw6• 19 years ago

Of course its constantly refreshing as always :)

The time zone difference is killing me, its only 8am over there!

monjurul• 19 years ago

hakuna matata = my philosophy in life.

dfranke4• 19 years ago

Considerably more often than that. Dreamhost is gonna be pissed with me.

jkush4• 19 years ago

Has anyone heard back yet?

blader8• 19 years ago

Yes, but he wants me to buy penis enlargement pills for some reason.

jkush4• 19 years ago

Heh. I didn't know YC was into that kind of thing. How interesting.

mariandumi• 19 years ago

I'm in love with my Junk Email box today too. Nothing gets deleted without proper consideration.

notabel3• 19 years ago

I've got a Sieve script running on my IMAP server, set to redirect to my phone any message from an address containing any of the strings "pg@", "tlb@", "rtm@", "x@", or "ycombinator".

I also have my email here set to a subaddress, which is also included in the above forward. Points to anyone who understands Sieve semantics well enough to predict whether the message will get matched and redirected twice.

Sieve happens in realtime :-)

jkush4• 19 years ago

I've got you beat. I built a robot last night (runs on Lisp and parts from Radio Shack) that constantly monitors the internet, my phone lines and packets going out of YC's office. As soon as my robot picks up a signal of interest it beams the messages directly to my HUD that I've been wearing ever since I sent my app in.

notabel3• 19 years ago

Hurray for over-engineered solutions! While you're at it, though, you might as well just have your robot slip inside YC and grab a copy of Arc--then it wouldn't just be Lisp, it would be Hundred Year Lisp!

jey3• 19 years ago

I'm 300 meters away from YC in Mountain View, so the email doesn't have to travel as far through the intertubes to get to my inbox. Beat that!

danw6• 19 years ago

I'm about a 100ms away from there so presumably you'll know before I do

jganetsk• 19 years ago

Doesn't have to. But it sure might not get routed that way.

theoutlander3• 19 years ago

Hold up Hold up! The data will travel straight to Seattle first before getting re-routed! So even if you guys are 100ms away ... the data pipes are facing in my direction :-D

dfranke4• 19 years ago

How high would you jump if I sent you an SMS right now?

notabel3• 19 years ago

Well, given that I'm on the second floor of Marston, I'd probably find out what the view from the roof is. :-)

jwecker• 19 years ago

"I tried to call but no one answered..."

Alex3917• 19 years ago

Emails fall through.

This isn't survivor. Get back to work. :-)

nostrademons3• 19 years ago

GMail. It refreshes for me.

Other than that - I'm trying to get some work done so I can get home at a reasonable hour and work some more on my startup.

mukund6• 19 years ago

I got a mail from GMAIL team asking me not to abuse Gmail by constantly refreshing it :D

theoutlander3• 19 years ago

Gmail doesn't refresh that often! I think there is still a lag....keeeep refreshing!

blader8• 19 years ago

Let's all refresh at the same time and crash Google!

theoutlander3• 19 years ago

Goooooood Moooorning! Still no mail....?

KatherineHagman• 19 years ago

Agree with the Gmail people -- although I love it, the notifier can't be trusted with important matters!

mukund6• 19 years ago

Did PG read this posting?

"Just try to take a released feature away from customers and see how pissed off they get." (37signals.com)

Here we are all waiting for that email and its more or less like this ;-)

wensing• 19 years ago

I read someone recently refer to startups as the NBA of high-tech (luring kids away from college). If that's the case, does that make this draft day? It would appear to have some of the feel.

patryn20• 19 years ago

I have to admit I am a little unclear on one point: Does everyone who applied get emailed or just the ones accepted to the interviews? I would hate to be waiting for something that will never come.

Darn you, Godot! You wasted two hours of my life! :-)

jey3• 19 years ago

Yes, every team receives an email, although not necessarily all founders. Might just be the founder whose account you applied under.

pg• 19 years ago

We'll email the founder whose yc account the application was made through. The from addr will be info@ycombinator.com.

a5huynh• 19 years ago

yeah, can someone please answer that?

I wouldn't want to be waiting for easter eggs on Christmas.

edit: nvm

mukund6• 19 years ago

Oh did any hacker intercept the mail? Its rater dangerous if that happens ;-)

joshwa7• 19 years ago

he's awake!

http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=11399

(I can't believe I'm posting this)

danw6• 19 years ago

And now we're all refreshing this thread too

xinroman• 19 years ago

fingers crossed

melhorn2• 19 years ago

why refresh mail when I can refresh ycombinator? The second when one of the emails gets received it will be posted here for shure... :-)

blader8• 19 years ago

FYI: Just received an interview email. No joke.

jkush4• 19 years ago

Hey, congratulations! That's fantastic!

blader8• 19 years ago

Thanks. Good luck to everyone!

mukund6• 19 years ago

Hey thats a great news. Congrats

russ• 19 years ago

Thanks for the update. Congrats and best of luck!

jsjenkins1682• 19 years ago

I did too. I am shaking so much I can barely type... I am shocked.

mukund6• 19 years ago

hey congrats to u too :)

blader8• 19 years ago

DUDE. So was I! My hands could barely dial my partner's number on my cell phone!

hganchev2• 19 years ago

Let us know of the deal at the end. I am really interested about the % they will ask for.

joshwa7• 19 years ago

hmmn... nothing yet. I hope this doesn't mean they sent the yeses in one batch and the nos in another...

dfranke4• 19 years ago

Let's hope they're just sending them off one by one. But I'm not going to speculate. That way lies madness.

rintaun• 19 years ago

Congrats.

nostrademons3• 19 years ago

Congrats! I didn't, so I'm guessing I didn't make it this time around. Oh well.

danw6• 19 years ago

Has anyone received a rejection email yet?

yaacovtp• 19 years ago

Think positive, otherwise you'll get bad karma.

danw6• 19 years ago

I got a rejection email just now

joshwa7• 19 years ago

just got my rejection. :(

randallsquared2• 19 years ago

Just now, yes. Ah, well...

gyro_robo2• 19 years ago

Us rejects should team up.

There's nothing investors hate more than missing out on something big, especially if it was originally offered right to them, like Apple and HP/Atari.

blored• 19 years ago

does anyone want to share a hotel room for Saturday and Sunday night? Conversely, if anyone wants to house a Ycombinator interviewee for two nights, I would be eternally in their debt.

Thanks, Mark

shadowolf2• 19 years ago

Congrads

yili• 19 years ago

congrats. i can't believe it when my partner told me :)

huangnankun4• 19 years ago

wow, I'm so happy =) look forward to seeing you guys in mountain view, CA

st7672• 19 years ago

no.

joshwa7• 19 years ago

troll?

st7672• 19 years ago

no.

herdrick2• 19 years ago

For American teams who got interviews and need to fly to Silicon Valley: Southwest has a sale that includes flights to San Jose. Sample fare: $79 each way from Seattle to San Jose. Here: http://www.southwest.com/hotfares/hotfares2.html

You'll need to book before Thursday midnight (now is that midnight between Thursday and Friday, or...?).

randallsquared2• 19 years ago

It's too late for that: "with 14-day advance purchase"

herdrick2• 19 years ago

Ah, yes. Oops.

huangnankun4• 19 years ago

To everyone rejected, don't give up , remember the fedex story, bootstrap it and work hard!

gyro_robo2• 19 years ago

Was rejected.

knewjax3• 19 years ago

Rejection the best motivator? or is it just me? The passion to prove yourself and your ideas is more motivating than acceptance. Anyway we have some extra office space available to share with all you future ycombinator startups that will be locating in boston for the summer. We are located in davis square minutes from harvard sqaure in cambridge. We have been there for 4 months now and have 2-3 desks to spare. You can see pics at dreamvex.com (our soon to be designed blog).

If anyone is interested when you move to the city, you can email me at todd at dreamvex.com

goodluck to everyone who got an interview.

jamiequint• 19 years ago

I sense a marketing opportunity for blackberry in this thread! :) yay for push email

maheshvv• 19 years ago

Got a thumbs-up @5pm EST. It was a generic msg, sent to a suppressed mailing list. knewjax, we did not provide a demo or prototype. We did, however, spend quite a bit of time in writing a detailed reply to a question pg sent by email about 5 days ago.

brezina• 19 years ago

Congrats to all winners. For anyone who won't be in this YC batch, here is an idea.

I suggest joining my YC alum startup, Xobni, instead. Sometimes great hackers joinup instead of startup. That is what Paul Buchheit did : http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/03/looking-for-co-founder-try-attending.html

send resumes: http://www.xobni.com/jobs.php

Prrometheus• 19 years ago

How is that different from a normal day?

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